The river we have wrought [electronic resource] : a history of the upper Mississippi / John O. Anfinson.

Innumerable
This splendid juggernaut
The bounty of providence
Making the Mississippi over again
Highway of empire
So nearly perfected by nature
Cradle, home, and place of sojourn
A marooned interior
Straining at the chains
An inland empire's need
This noble river
Epilogue : fourth river.