Mississippi River

"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book — a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."

―Mark Twain

The Mississippi River is the largest river on the North American continent, located entirely in the former United States. Having provided locals with resources and means of transportation from the pre-Columbian era up until the Great War, it should not be a surprise to learn that the delta and riverbanks are inhabited to this day.