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1. Mississippi River
J.K. (Jay Kim)

2. How Big?
Longest river in North America
Fourth longest river in the world
Nile, Amazon, and the Yangtze Rivers are
longer
Passes Through Ten States
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Louisiana

3. Habitat
The Mississippi Flyway is a
migration passage for forty
percent of North America’s
waterfowl and shorebirds
The River provides a habitat
for many birds, including the
Bald Eagle
154 species of fish and fifty
species of freshwater mussels
have been recorded in the river
system

4. Resources
Canal - Lake Michigan and the Illinois River
Agricultural commodities, petroleum
products, and coal
Around sixty percent of the floodplain of the
Mississippi River are used for crops and
pastureland
The Illinois River once accounted for ten percent of the Nation’s inland commercial fish harvest
More than thirty million people rely on the Mississippi River

5. Mark Twain
& the Mississippi River

6. Age 4-18
• The Most important years
• Family moves to Hannibal Missouri
• A lazy outpost on the Mississippi River
• Samuel Clemens’ boyhood home
• Father dies when he is eleven
• Died to pneumonia
• Begins work as a Printer’s Apprentice
• Then works as a journey printer with the
Hannibal Gazette where he publishes his
first sketch

7. Tom Sawyer Days
• age four to fifteen
• a time when himself pulled many of his
pranks
• Attributed to his young hero
• Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and
Life on the Mississippi

8. 22-26
• Returns to the Mississippi
• Works as a cub-pilot for Horace Bixby
• Described in Life on the Mississippi

9. 26-27
• Civil War breaks out
• Serves in the Confederates for two weeks
• He moves to Nevada
• End of the Mississippi
• The Start of Mississippi
• Literary works

10. Mark Twain & Samuel
Clemens
J.K. and Boram

11. “Two Fathom”
Mark Twain
Two fathom
Originated from Captain Sellers
The safe level of water for sailing

12. The Mississippi River and Adventures Huckleberry Finn
JK and Boram

13. Huckleberry Finn
Mississippi symbolizes freedom
Mark Twain used the Mississippi River to use an imagery.
Peaceful
Eerie
Dangerous
Ohio was their destination, final destinations in the novel
Town near the Mississippi River seem as “uncivilized.”

14. Discussion Questions #1
What are his most important days
called? How did Mark Twain’s
boyhood affect his writings? Name
one inspiration.

15. Discussion Question #2
What caused Mark Twain to become a writer
instead of a steamboat pilot? How is it
related to the Mississippi?

16. Discussion Question #3
Why is the Mississippi River important to Mark Twain?

17. Quotes
• “ I took the axe and smashed in the door. I beat it and hacked it
considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly
to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him
down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground --
hard packed, and no boards. Well, next I took an old sack and put a
lot of big rocks in it -- all I could drag -- and I started it from the pig,
and dragged it to the door and through the woods down to the river
and dumped it in, and down it sunk, out of sight. You could easy see
that something had been dragged over the ground. I did wish Tom
Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of
business, and throw in the fancy touches. Nobody could spread
himself like Tom Sawyer in such a thing as that.....” (Twain 25)
• “As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden
fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other
side of the house. Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of his head and
hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn't
wake. Afterwards Jim said the witches bewitched him and put him in
a trance, and rode him all over the State”

18. citations
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Isaiah Sellers. "Steamboat Men Mark Twain Knew - Isaiah Sellers." Mark Twain quotations. Web. 25 Nov. 2009. <http://www.twainquotes.com/
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page2.html>.
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index.html>.
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Center Director Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center. "UMESC - About the Upper Mississippi River System." Upper Midwest
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