General Mississippi River

Links

• Louisiana and the Mighty Mississippi River
• Mississippi River Home Page
• Mississippi River: Official Travel, Adventure and Events Site
• Mississippi River Research Consortium.  "MRRC members are scientists, river managers, teachers, students, and individuals from private business and the general public who want to encourage both pure and applied research on the water and land resources of the Mississippi River and its watershed."
• Mississippi River Basin.  EPA Office of Water
• Upper Mississippi Basin Stakeholder Network

Sources

• Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Elliott, D. O. The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation. Vicksburg: U.S. Waterways Experiment Station, 1932. 3 vols.
• Feringa, P. A. and Chas W. Schweizer. One Hundred Years Improvement on the Lower Mississippi River. Vicksburg: Mississippi River Commission, 1952.
• Jackson, T. H. Bank Protection on Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Washington: U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1935.
• McDermott, John F., ed. Before Mark Train: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi. Carbondale, Il.: 1968.
• Moore, Jamie W., and Dorothy P. Moore. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain Management Policy. Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Sciences, 1989.
• Moore, Norman R. Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River and Tributaries, 1931-1972. Vicksburg: Mississippi River Commission, 1972.
• Reuss, Martin. "Andrew A. Humphreys and the Development of Hydraulic Engineering: Politics and Technology in the Army Corps of Engineers, 1850-1950." Technology and Culture 26 (January 1985).
• Robinson, Michael C., and Loyde T. Ethridge. "History of Bank Protection through the Use of Revetments." In Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses (P.I.A.N.C.), Centenaire de l'Association Internationale Permanente des Congres de Navigation/Centenary of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses 1885-1985, Brussels. 1985: 276-354.
• Shallat, Todd. Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
• Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Bantam Classic edition, 1981.