US state, joined 1817

Usage examples of mississippi.

Huntsville will take responsibility for a couple, California for two or three, Mississippi for one, and Houston for its two, plus the astronaut program itself.

An incised ornament of this character, possibly derived from basketry by copying the twisted fillets or their impressions in the clay, is very common on the pottery of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, and its variants form a most interesting study.

In basketry and certain classes of garment-making, the inhabitants of the Mississippi valley were well advanced at the period of European conquest, and there is ample evidence to show that the mound-building peoples were not behind historic tribes in this matter.

Treaty of Ghent was signed and ratified, without any provisions either as to the Fisheries or the navigation of the Mississippi River,--a position which left the United States in the full exercise of its rights under the treaty of 1782, from which it could be excluded only by the exercise of force on the part of the British Government.

Mississippi River that in many instances better crops will be obtained from poor soils well manured than from good soils unmanured.

In the winter of 1835 a man named Murrel organized a conspiracy to foment widespread slave rebellion, with the intention of looting plantation houses in its wake all along the lower Mississippi valley when their owners fled.

During the inundations of the Mississippi the river may at times be seen to eat away acres of land in a single day along one of the outcurves of its banks.

I can outrun, outjump, outshoot, outbrag, outdrink and outfight any man on both sides of the Mississippi from Pittsburgh to New Orleans!

It was supernatural, flying at sixty miles an hour through the low Louisiana landscape, the levee always concealing the Mississippi, the sky frequently completely overlaced with green.

The occupations and sights along the Upper Mississippi and its head-waters, the pineries, and even the spring floods, are intimately connected, causally, with the saw-mills and lumber yards lower down.

Father Charlevoix, the tribes of Canada and the valley of the Mississippi relate in their rude legends that all mankind was destroyed by a flood, and that the Good Spirit, to repeople the earth, had changed animals into men.

David Sansing, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Mississippi, has been very helpful to me in my research, as has longtime Jackson journalist Bill Minor.

Mayfield and Dubra experiences: Sansing, The University of Mississippi, p.

Mississippi blamed marshals, statement by faculty and staff: Sansing, The University of Mississippi, p.

It seemed like they were going down this screwing River Road all the way to the mouth of the Mississippi!