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The 56 pages that link to Mississippi River, each with the reason it gives.

• Treaty of Paris (1783)Related: It formed the western boundary of the United States established by the treaty.

• Mark TwainRelated: Clemens worked on its steamboats, and its landscapes and speech shaped his writing.

• New OrleansRelated: Its channel made New Orleans a strategic inland port connected to a vast watershed.

• Columbia RiverCompared with: Its continental-scale basin offers a contrast to the Columbia’s westward route to the Pacific.

• Laurentide Ice SheetRelated: Laurentide ice and meltwater altered the river’s headwaters and drainage routes.

• PokerRelated: Poker spread through nineteenth-century American river travel and frontier communities.

• Inland waterway transportBroader topic: Its connected river routes have long supported trade across the continent.

• Inland waterwayBroader topic: Its navigable network carries agricultural and industrial freight across the United States.

• Mississippi River DeltaNarrower topic: Its water and sediment supply created the delta and continue to shape it.

• Missouri RiverRelated: The Missouri joins it near St. Louis, contributing much of its flow and drainage basin.

• Gulf of MexicoRelated: Its freshwater and sediment strongly affect the northern gulf.

• Northwest OrdinanceRelated: The ordinance named the river as the Northwest Territory's western boundary.

• Ohio RiverNarrower topic: The Ohio ends at Cairo, Illinois, where it joins this larger river.

• TennesseeRelated: It forms Tennessee’s western boundary and has shaped Memphis’s commerce and history.

• Midwestern United StatesRelated: It links Midwestern farms and cities to inland and international trade routes.

• Louisiana (New France)Related: Its basin supplied the geographic framework for France’s territorial claim.

• Adventures of Huckleberry FinnRelated: Its changing geography provides the novel’s route and separates moments of refuge from danger.

• MinnesotaRelated: The river begins in northern Minnesota and runs through the state’s eastern region.

• Mississippi River BasinBroader topic: The basin drains toward this main river and its mouth.

• LouisianaRelated: Its lower course runs through Louisiana and shaped transport, settlement, and commerce.

• MinneapolisNarrower topic: It crosses Minneapolis and has shaped its landscape, industry, and recreation.

• Suspended loadBroader topic: Its suspended sediment has built and sustained the Mississippi Delta.

• Arkansas RiverNarrower topic: The Arkansas ends as one of the Mississippi’s major tributaries.

• Dakota peopleRelated: The river is a prominent geographic landmark in Dakota histories and place-based traditions.

• Eastern United StatesRelated: It is the broad western boundary used in this definition of the East.

• Siege of VicksburgNarrower topic: Control of its lower course divided the Confederacy and shaped Union strategy.

• IllinoisRelated: It forms much of Illinois’s western boundary.

• IowaRelated: It forms most of Iowa’s eastern border.

• Oxbow lakeRelated: Its floodplain contains many well-known oxbow lakes.

• Red River of the NorthCompared with: The Red River’s northward flow contrasts with the Mississippi system’s southward drainage.

• St. LouisRelated: The river enabled trade and transport while separating the city from Illinois.

• MissouriRelated: It forms Missouri’s eastern boundary and connects the state to a vast inland waterway.

• Point barRelated: Its meandering reaches and deposits provide classic examples of point-bar development.

• Atchafalaya RiverNarrower topic: The Atchafalaya branches from the Mississippi near the Old River Control Structure.

• Antebellum SouthRelated: Its transport routes tied inland plantations to New Orleans and global markets.

• ArkansasRelated: It forms Arkansas’s eastern border and shaped settlement and commerce.

• Brown recluse spiderRelated: The brown recluse’s established range broadly centers on the Mississippi River basin.

• Gateway ArchRelated: The Arch faces the river that shaped St. Louis’s historic role as a gateway to the West.

• Louis JollietRelated: Jolliet and Marquette followed it south to determine its course.

• Ol' Man RiverBroader topic: The river is the song's central image and setting.

• Zebulon PikeRelated: Pike’s 1805 expedition surveyed the river’s upper reaches and sought its source.

• Baton RougeRelated: Its navigable channel made Baton Rouge a port and shaped the city’s position.

• Jacques MarquetteNarrower topic: Marquette and Jolliet followed its upper reaches south in 1673.

• MississippiRelated: It forms Mississippi's western boundary and has linked the state to inland trade.

• The Adventures of Tom SawyerRelated: River travel and island life give the novel its distinctive frontier setting.

• The Birds of AmericaRelated: Audubon traveled along the river and used its landscapes and wildlife as subjects.

• Acer saccharinumRelated: Silver maple is a characteristic tree of floodplain forests along parts of this river system.

• Black bullheadRelated: The river basin lies within the black bullhead’s native range.

• Continental Divide of the AmericasRelated: Its basin lies east of the divide across much of the central United States.

• Friedrich WeyerhäuserRelated: Its transport network carried the logs and lumber central to Weyerhäuser's early operations.