True Tales from the Mighty Mississippi's PastFrom the magnificent prehistoric city of Cahokia to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, It Happened on the Mississippi River tells the stories of intriguing people and events from the history of America's most legendary and historically important river. Find out how the utopian community of Nashoba, founded in 1825 near Memphis, failed after its "emancipated slaves" became victims of misdirected project. Read all about the great steamboat race between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee. Decide for yourself whether the "Kensington Stone" found by Olaf Ohman in 1898 proves that bands of Vikings made their way to present-day Minnesota more than six hundred years ago!

Jim Crutchfield is a popular western historian and the author of numerous books, including It Happened in Texas, It Happened in Washington, and other It Happened In books.