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For younger readers

Currie, Stephen. The Mississippi. Lucent, 2003. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Walsh, Kieran J. The Mississippi. World Almanac, 2003. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Mississippi River

Allen, Michael. Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse. Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Reconstruction of the lives of the boatmen.

Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Social, cultural, and political impact.

Childs, Marquis. Mighty Mississippi: Biography of a River. Ticknor & Fields, 1982. Four-hundred years of history surrounding the river.

Hiscock, Bruce. The Big Rivers: The Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Ohio. Atheneum, 1997. Account of the 1993 floods; for younger readers.

Malcolm, Andrew H. Mississippi Currents: Journeys Through Time and a Valley. Morrow, 1996. Illustrated travel guide for the length of the Mississippi.

Myrick, Burny. The Timeless River: A Portrait of Life on the Mississippi 1850-1900. Oxmoor, 1981. Considers the river and its surroundings.

Owens, Harry P. Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. University of Mississippi Press, 1990. History of the steamboat industry and the life around it.

Raban, Jonathan. Old Glory: An American Voyage. Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Reprint, Vintage, 1981. 1982. 1998. Inspired by American author Mark Twain's character Huckleberry Finn, an English critic travels down the Mississippi.

Reps, John William. Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. University of Missouri Press, 1994. Illustrated histories of river towns using 19th-century artwork.

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