The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Thanks to “Ol’ Man River,” the Broadway show tune made famous by Paul Robeson, many of us grew up thinking of the Mississippi River not merely as a piece of geography but a giant personality. That ...

One of the reasons I got to this book is by falling in love with the Mississippi River the first time I went out there. I had lived in the Delta for six years, literally on land that was built by the ...

When we look out at the Mississippi River, beyond the levee we usually see the always-swirling, muddy water with busy freighters, tows and barges, tugboats and the like sailing the river or moored at ...

In an often-excerpted passage from his memoir, Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain describes how his perceptions of the Mississippi River changed after he spent months piloting a steamboat up and down ...

“Back Them Days: Reflections on a Life on the Mississippi River” tells the life story of a commercial fisherman based in ...

The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt. W.W. Norton, 2024 ($29.99) Blast. Carve. Dredge. Smash. Such powerful verbs fill a single paragraph midstream in Boyce ...

Frank Bures’ new book "Pushing the River" blends history and personal adventure to bring the spirit of the Mississippi to readers — whether or not they can get on the water themselves.

"The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi" by Boyce Upholt, W.W. Norton, 352 pages When we look out at the Mississippi River, beyond the levee we usually see the always-swirling, ...