A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse library already maintains collections of river maps and charts dating back a hundred or ...

this music helps me picture the river's different eras and other stretches of it I have yet to visit. If you haven't seen the Mississippi yet — or just haven't in a while — let this playlist ...

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Vice Chairman of the Red Cross James Fieser. Ten thousand River Commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, can not tame that lawless stream ...