Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain painted an evocative vision of the Mississippi River, but he didn’t tell the whole story.

Race of the Steamboats: Robert E. Lee (nicknamed the ‘Monarch of the Mississippi’) and Natchez, chromolithograph, 1870 © Getty Images

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