MISSISSIPPI RIVER

the principal river of the United States which flows a distance of 2,330 miles from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. —SHSBC Binder 19 Approved Glossary

the principal river of the United States which flows a distance of 2,330 miles from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.the principal river of the United States which flows a distance of 2,330 miles from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Many steamboats on which gambling took place in the early 1800s traveled up and down the Mississippi.