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Published in March to widespread critical acclaim,“James” is told from the perspective of Jim, the escaped slave who joins Twain’s protagonist Huckleberry Finn on his journey down the Mississippi River.

Call signs for most stations east of the Mississippi River begin with a W, and for stations west of the Mississippi, a K. Beyond that, the imagination ran riot.

Edward Carroll Stone Jr. was born on Jan. 23, 1936, in Knoxville, Iowa, southeast of Des Moines, and grew up near Burlington, on the banks of the Mississippi River.

Most abandoned land was concentrated in the Great Plains and along the Mississippi River between southern Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico.

Some pilgrims were embarking Sunday from the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.