* " Lonely Melody " 3 / " Mississippi Mud " 2, with Bing Crosby, the Rhythm Boys, and Izzy Friedman, recorded on January 4, 1928, in New York and released as Victor 25366

Mud Island, Memphis | Mud Island Mississippi River Park ( 2006 )

Mud Island River Park and Mississippi River Museum is located on Mud Island in downtown Memphis.

Harry Barris, one of Paul Whiteman's " The Rhythm Boys ," along with Bing Crosby, scatted on several songs, including " Mississippi Mud ," which Barris wrote in 1927.

* The Rhythm Boys ( Harry Barris scatting, Bing Crosby et al ), " The Mississippi Mud " written by Barris

Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including " Wang Wang Blues ", " Mississippi Mud ", " Rhapsody in Blue ", " Wonderful One ", " Hot Lips ", " Mississippi Suite ", and " Grand Canyon Suite ".

“ It is a coming of age drama centered on two 14-year-old boys ( Ellis and Neckbone ) who encounter a mysterious fugitive ( Mud ) on an island in the Mississippi River ,” according to www. theagencyinc. com.

*" Mississippi Mud " by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra

* " Mississippi Mud " w. James Cavanaugh m. Harry Barris

Dunn published parts of the novel in Mississippi Mud Book of Days ( 1983 ) and Looking Glass Bookstore Review ( 1988 ).

According to Edward Humes in Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia ( 1994 ), Pusser was suspected by some law enforcement officials of having killed both.

*" Mississippi Mud "/" There'll Come a Time ( Wait and See )," January 9, 1928, New York, Okeh 40979

It meets the Mississippi north of the mouth of the Wolf River near Mud Island.

Other songs on the album, including " Peg O ' My Heart ", " Zip A Dee Doo Dah ", " Mississippi Mud ", and " Santa Claus Is Comin ' To Town ", are sung with the syllables " mah na mah na " filling in for the actual words of the song.

* Mud Lake ( Mississippi ), several

It begins in 1975 with Mississippi Mud and ends in 2001 with A Day at the Races with I Claudius Rip Off Number One.

McCoy recorded several sides with Bo Carter as the ' Mississippi Mud Steppers '.

Mud Boy and the Neutrons is a Memphis rock music band who influenced the Memphis alternative rock scene in the 1970s through the 1990s, inspiring groups like Tav Falco's Panther Burns, North Mississippi Allstars ( featuring two of Jim Dickinson's sons ), Big Ass Truck, and others from the area.

* Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia, Pocket, ISBN 0-671-53505-6, December 1, 1995

* 1960 Because of its foul odor the Wolf is dammed near its mouth and diverted into the Mississippi north of Mud Island.

The section of the Wolf downstream of this channel diversion became a slackwater harbor of the Mississippi known today as Wolf River Harbor, which separates Mud Island from the Memphis " mainland ".

Unlike other tribes who exchanged land grants, the Chickasaw were to receive mostly financial compensation of $ 3 million from the United States for their lands east of the Mississippi River.

Four years later Polk sold his Somerville plantation and, together with his brother-in-law, bought 920 acres ( 3. 7 km² ) of land, a cotton plantation near Coffeeville, Mississippi.

Missouri voters approved riverboat casino gaming on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers by referendum with a 63 % majority on November 3, 1992.

The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own deposits ( known as a levee ), from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile ( 3 m / km ).

John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt ( July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966 ) was an American country blues singer and guitarist.

At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.

" Cultural Studies ' Misfit: White Trash Studies ", Mississippi Quarterly 2004 57 ( 3 ): 369-387, traces the emergence of ' white trash studies ' as a scholarly field by placing representative 20th-century popular images of ' white trash ' in their Southern economic and cultural contexts.

* October 20 – Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, 3 days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.

** A 5. 3 Kiloton nuclear device is detonated at the Tatum Salt Dome, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Vela Uniform program.

* July 3 – Mississippi John Hurt, American musician ( d. 1966 )

* August 15 – By act of the U. S. Congress ( March 3 ), the Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is drafted, four months before Mississippi became a State of the United States.

On May 15, 1820, Congress authorized an extension to St. Louis, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, and on March 3, 1825, across the Mississippi to Jefferson City, Missouri.

In those days, winning the Democratic nomination was tantamount to election in Mississippi, and Eastland returned to the Senate on January 3, 1943.

A rapidly growing deciduous hardwood tree, it reached up to 30 – 45 meters ( 100 – 150 feet ) tall and 3 m ( 10 ft ) in diameter, and ranged from Maine and southern Ontario to Mississippi, and from the Atlantic coast to the Appalachian Mountains and the Ohio Valley.

After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.

* 20px Mississippi Highway 3

* 20px Mississippi Highway 3

* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

British folk / blues artist Wizz Jones recorded a tribute song called " Mississippi John " for his 1977 album Magical Flight.

* " Clarksdale Moan " / " Mississippi County Farm Blues " ( one known copy )

* Blues From The Mississippi Delta ( W / J. D.

* Council Bluffs / Omaha proposed by Thomas C. Durant via an extension of his proposed Mississippi and Missouri Railroad via the new Union Pacific Railroad.

Prominent levee systems have been built along the Mississippi River and Sacramento River in the United States, and the Po, Rhine, Meuse River, Rhone, Loire, Vistula, the delta formed by the Rhine, Maas / Meuse and Scheldt in the Netherlands and the Danube in Europe.

In the Spring of 1962, with funds from the Voter Education Project, SNCC / COFO began voter registration organizing in the Mississippi Delta area around Greenwood, and the areas surrounding Hattiesburg, Laurel, and Holly Springs.

A transcontinental railroad in the United States ' is any continuous rail line connecting a location on the U. S. Pacific coast with one or more of the railroads of the nation's eastern trunk line rail systems operating between the Missouri and / or Mississippi Rivers and the U. S Atlantic coast.

Hernando de Soto ( c. 1496 / 1497 – 1542 ) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European documented to have crossed the Mississippi River.

* April 2010 – Chevron continued to allow independent jobbers to switch to the Texaco brand, such as the small chain of BP gas stations in Mississippi operated by Mississippi Oil / Smith Petroleum as Dandy Dan C-Stores.

Some of the more biologically important wetland areas include ( going downsteam from Pembroke ), the Westmeath sand dune / wetland complex, Mississippi Snye, Breckenridge Nature Reserve, Shirleys Bay, Ottawa Beach / Andrew Haydon Park, Petrie Island, the Duck Islands and Greens Creek.

Hawks again named the Nelson / Caan character after a state ( in this case, Mississippi ) and in a wry, humorous twist on the original film, Hawks made him inept with firearms, but skilled with a knife.

The division commander serves on two national and international decision-making bodies: co-chair of the Lake Superior, Niagara, and Ontario / St Lawrence Seaway boards of control ; and the Mississippi River Commission.

Some projects are said to have created profound detrimental environmental effects and / or provided questionable economic benefit such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in southeast Louisiana.

" Oconee was a local Cherokee town that was situated on the main British / Cherokee trading path between Charleston and the Mississippi River in the early 18th century.

* McAlexander / Marshall County Collection ( MUM00287 ) owned by the University of Mississippi, Archives and Special Collections.