Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River takes us back to a time before the Mississippi was dredged into a shipping channel, and before Mark Twain romanticized it into myth.
Chapter 4: Like Bubbles on a Sea
Chapter 5: The Desire of an Ignorant Westerner
Chapter 7: The Roar of Niagara
Chapter 8: The Cosmopolitan Tide
Chapter 10: The Coasts of Dark Destruction
Chapter 11: The Mound Builders
Chapter 12: A Young Man of Splendid Abilities
Chapter 16: The Last of the Floating Life