Anyone for a Dip? Since I was a kid, I've been warned that the mighty Mississippi is a deadly stew of swirling eddies—and that swimming across it is oneof the stupidest things a person can do. Naturally, I had to give it a try. Source: Outside
Dude Over Troubled Water The strangest stuff litters the flood-sloshed banks of the Mississippi River and her tributaries—tires by the hundred, refrigerators, automobiles, messages in a bottle, urine in a bottle, and (yikes!) the occasional ice chest containing a severed horse head. When the going gets gross, the man to call is Chad Pregracke, a crusading voyager in the war against trash. Source: Outside
My Delta, Myself You can go home again—so long as home is the blacktop along the mighty Mississippi Source: Outside
Gibraltar of the Confederacy The North and South both believed that controllingVicksburg was vital to the war effort. Visitors to thecity today can see why.
Along the Devil's Backbone The Natchez trace once provided the best route through Mississippi to Tennessee--if you could avoid its rouges, rascals and cold-blooded killers.
A Meeting at Shiloh The Civil War was almost a year old when Unionand Confederate armies clashed in Tennessee.The result was a bloody preview of the years to come.
