Searching for the Headwaters of the Mississippi River

While we settled on the name Mississippi by the mid-eighteenth century, we were still trying to define what body of water that name applied to—specifically, just where the river we called Mississippi began. This wasn’t just an act of intellectual curiosity. At the end of the eighteenth century, border disputes between the U. S.

By |2024-02-26T18:37:19-05:00August 29th, 2018|About the Mississippi Valley|Comments Off on Searching for the Headwaters of the Mississippi River

Picture of the Day: Itasca State Park Overlook

So many overlooks, so little time. I like to get to the top of as many bluffs as I can, which means I have a lot of pictures looking down on the river from points on high. In the next several weeks, I'm going to showcase some of those pictures, a new overlook each week

By |2016-10-21T15:28:17-05:00August 6th, 2014|Photo of the Day|Comments Off on Picture of the Day: Itasca State Park Overlook

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