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A trip to visit Old Man River

By Jim Caple
Page 2 columnist

Monday, September 8, 2003

LAKE ITASCA, Minn. -- I waded into the clear cooling waters of what seemed little more than a creek, cracked open my book and turned to the opening sentence. "The Mississippi is well worth reading about." That was fortunate news given that this initial sentence is followed by 400 pages in Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi," that there are another 726 pages beyond that in my Library of America copy of Twain's collected "Mississippi Writings" and that I will spend the next two weeks driving t ...

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