Mississippi River

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Nicholas Roosevelt’s fire canoe transformed the Mississippi.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In Florida the great conquistador hoped to find a Golconda. Instead, he found a Golgotha. </span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck">“Ten thousand River Commissions,” wrote Mark Twain, “cannot tame that lawless stream.” But James Eads came close.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A steamboat makes springtime visits to some of the region’s most fragrant and historic gardens.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">General Grant escapes the swamps and a War Department move to relieve him of command</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Most terrible steamboat disaster in history, probably, was the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union veterans died—yet the tragedy got very few headlines.</span> </p>