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How the Mississippi River was deformed and manipulated—with catastrophic results

A new book tells the modern history of the ‘Big Muddy’ as a tragedy wrought by colonial hubris. 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 its muddy length.

 

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