Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson PDF Mark Twain

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This fierce current restrained ambitions for the commercial exploitation of the great central valley, for navigation of the Mississippi was at first limited to raft, keel, and flatboat, slow-moving vessels whose passage was hampered by attacks from Indians, river pirates, and the ever-present hazards provided by snags and shifting sandbars.

We associate the invention of the steamboat with Robert Fulton and the Hudson River, but both Fulton and his unfortunate predecessor, “Poor” John Fitch, had the Mississippi in mind as they went about perfecting steam-powered navigation. Indeed, Fitch might have been more successful in promoting his invention, which made a number of voyages along the Delaware River, had the navigation of the Mississippi not been controlled at the time by the Spanish and then the French governments. President Jefferson sent Robert Livingston to France to bargain with Napoleon for navigation rights to the great river and his representat

• Book Name: Mark Twain : Mississippi Writings : Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson pdf
• Author Name Mark Twain
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• Added Year 1876

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