Mississippi

I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days promises to make good the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme.

The Mississippi Delta is widely recognized as the undisputed birthplace of modern American music.

Before Samuel Langhorne Clemens became an internationally celebrated literary luminary, he was an apprentice pilot navigating the capricious currents of the Mississippi River.

He quickly discovered that the Mississippi was not a static entity but rather a living, breathing organism that altered its course with dizzying frequency.