Ol’ Miss (the River Road)
View 2300 miles of the Mississippi River through America’s heartland. Travel by road and steamboat. Enjoy many historic cities and towns. Reminiscent of bygone days.
Origin of the Mississippi River is jest a small stream a runnin’ into Lake Itasca. A whoppin’ 250 streams and tributaries feed into Ol’ Miss.
Length of Ol’ Miss is over 2300 miles. It’s ever-changin’ as if flows though the heartland of America.
Mark Twain, bless ‘im, made Ol’ Miss knowed to the world in his own idiom.
In ‘tween the beginin’ and the endin’ of Ol’ Miss, you’ll be visitin’ historic cities and towns you done read about in American history.
Steam boatin’ today is really sumpin’. Ever see 50 chained together barges handle 870 truckloads a cargo? Y’all be grateful it ain’t like frontier days with all the shoutin’, gamblin’, fightin’, and shootin’.
Story tellin’ of a humorous nature was born right here in America, so sez Mark Twain. An’ we all will quit now, ’cause we cain’t add one mo thin’.
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