Stemming from a 2008 University of Minnesota symposium on the bridge collapse and the building of a new bridge, these stories address the ramifications of the disaster from the perspectives of history, engineering, architecture, water science, community-based journalism, and geo…
On August 1, 2007, just after 6:00 p.m., during the evening rush hour in Minneapolis, the 1,900-foot-long, eight-lane I-35W bridge buckled and crashed into the Mississippi River. The unimaginable had happened right on the doorstep of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campu…
Blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) are an economically, ecologically, and culturally important sportfish native to the Mississippi River system. Despite their value, much of their life history in the Mississippi River is still poorly understood, including how they utilize resourc…
Fish community structure is a complex and integrated part of an aquatic ecosystem; a balanced system is often rich in species diversity and abundance. Invasive species, including silver carp, can alter this balance and have deleterious effects. Recently, catches of silver carp i…
Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) is an invasive species to the United States that is capable of spawning multiple times within a single reproductive season. In 2016, an abundance of age-0 silver carp, with size-structure indicative of multiple hatch dates, were captured…
Bigheaded carp (bighead carp and silver carp) are invasive species in the US and have spread throughout most of the Mississippi River Basin. Population abundance upstream of Lock and Dam 19 (LD19) on the Upper Mississippi River has been limited by the high head dam at this locat…
A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure.
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, [this] story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from …
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Twain, Mark, Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
fromBantam classic
A young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
The adventures of a young boy and a run-away slave as they float down the Mississippi on a raft. Includes biographical background of the author and critical excerpts.
A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure.
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classr…