Mississippi, river, United States: Bibliography

See B. Keating, The Mighty Mississippi (1971); P. V. Scarpino, Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi (1985); M. M. Smart et al., ed., Ecological Perspectives of the Upper Mississippi River (1986); J. M. Barry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997); C. Morris, The Big Muddy (2012); P. Schneider, Old Man River (2013).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• History
• Attempts at Flood Control
• The Mississippi Delta
• Course and Navigation
• Bibliography

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