Old Man River: the Mississippi River in North American history

Prologue

Prelude: The American watershed

Book one. River of giants : continents collide, glaciers recede, mastodons bellow and humans arrive

Ice on the rocks

The Missouri leviathan

Broken arrows

Mammoth season

Book two. River of mounds

The rise and fall, and rise and fall, and rise of Native America

Among the effigies

Poverty point

35,000 pearls

Among the Mississippians

The great serpent

Book three. River of fortune

The Spanish exit, the French arrive, the Iroquois take action

Bonjour Great Khan

In the Iroquois longhouse

The American bottom

The Illinois Country

Adrift

The incomparable La Salle

Nous sommes tous sauvages

The wrath

If the river don't rise

Book four. River of empires

The English enter, the French exit, the Iroquois negotiate, and the Americans take over

The scramble for the Forks

The half king

Adieu New France

The American watershed

Allegheny mornings

Book six. Life on the Mississippi

Flatboats and keelboats, steamboats and showboats, slave boats and warships

Down a lazy river

I long to see you

Up the wicked river

All aboard

Down below

Blood on the tracks

Anaconda

Down in flames

Book seven. On the lake of the engineers

The mouth

All the lists of Clay

Old Man River.