COVER -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction: "THE MIS SISSIPPI WAS A VIRGIN FIELD" -- 1 "There Is a World of River Stuff to Write About": RECONSTRUCTING THE MIS SISSIPPI -- 2 "The Mighty River Lay like an Ocean": AQUATIC ADVENTURES FOR...
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COVER -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction: "THE MIS SISSIPPI WAS A VIRGIN FIELD" -- 1 "There Is a World of River Stuff to Write About": RECONSTRUCTING THE MIS SISSIPPI -- 2 "The Mighty River Lay like an Ocean": AQUATIC ADVENTURES FOR TRANSATLANTIC BOYS -- 3 "This Ain't That Kind of a River": LIFE, DEATH, AND MEMOR Y ON THE MIS SISSIPPI -- 4 "Sometimes We'd Have That Whole River All to Ourselves": RUNAWAYS, ROUSTABOUTS, AND THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM -- 5 "I Went on A-Spinnin' down de River": UNDERWORLDS AND UNDERTOWS -- Epilogue: "A BL ACK WALL OF NIGHT" -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
