*Books for young readers
Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Big River Man. Directed by John Maringouin. Los Angeles: Earthworks Films Inc., 2010, DVD.
*Brown, Don. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Heinrichs, Ann. La Salle: La Salle and the Mississippi River. North Mankato, MN: Compass Point Books, 2002.
Johnson, Robin. The Mississippi: America’s Mighty River. Ontario, Canada: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2010.
Petersen, William J. Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1996.
Sandlin, Lee. Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild. New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.
Schneider, Paul. Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
The Valley of the Giant: Mississippi River Story. National Archives and Records Administration, 2007, DVD.
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883.
*Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.
*Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1876.