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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• History of MinnesotaRelated: Its headwaters and trade corridor made the region a strategic meeting place.

• Quad CitiesRelated: The river shapes the region’s geography and links its Iowa and Illinois cities.

• René-Robert CavelierRelated: La Salle followed the river to the Gulf to claim its watershed for France.

• Salix nigraRelated: Black willow is common in floodplains and wet margins across the river's basin.