Lee E Sandlin

Giver and taker, 'Mighty Mississippi' never tamed

• aters"; 18th-century English novelist Frederick Marryat deemed it a "vile sewer" long before our industrial revolution turned it into one. The American Indians, says author Lee Sandlin, imagined it as "a giant sleeping snake that would wake up every seven years and attack whoever was alongside it."
• Date: May 19, 2011
• Category: U.S.
• Source: Google