Wildcat Creek begins just east of Kokomo in Greentown and ends at the Wabash River in Lafayette. Wildcat creek is about 84 miles long. This creek consists of three different forks, the north fork, south fork, and middle fork. Each fork flows in a general east-west direction. On our field trip, we visited the south fork. This stream runs through many different types of land typography, such as cropland and forests as well as developed areas. There were many different types of rocks present along this creek.…
gentle river that picks up nourishing silt on its path. In the spring, during a flood, the river…
The Atchafalaya River is a 137 mile long distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River and is the fifth largest river in North America, by discharge. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)…
The French including Marquette and Joliet, La Salle as well as De Tonti, had several roles in Arkansas from the 1600s to the 1780s. In 1673, Marquette and Joliet came down the Mississippi River and crossed over to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Their role in Arkansas during the 1600s was to find a route to the Orient countries, but they were not successful in finding the route. They found that the Mississippi River led down to the Gulf of Mexico. However, the two explorers did stop in an Indian village near what is present day Helena, Arkansas.…
Strengthened the United States because gave them complete control over the strategically crucial Mississippi River…
Kentucky's northern state border in comprised of two major rivers, the Ohio river, which joins with the mighty Mississippi river at the southern foot of Kentucky. These major rivers make the ideal transportation for many goods along to cities situated along the rivers further south. The ability to ship goods and resources along major waters ways, as historical accounts have proven, determine the success of major cities around the…
he Bayou Teche mocks the exact shape of the Mississippi River. This is a result of the Mississippi finding a steeper and shorter way to the gulf and taking that way until it only lightly flows into what is called the Bayou Teche instead of what is called the Bayou Teche being the main stream of the Mississippi. Around this time, the people that lived around the Mississippi were tribes of Indians like the Choctaw, the Tunica, the Osage, the Quapaw, and the Caddo’s. living beside or near the Mississippi was very common because the river provided food, water for the farms and crops, and of course water to drink. It was more efficient to live right beside the river because in that time people had to collect their drinking water in tubs, or buckets and in that time period they didn’t have cars obviously so there was no easy way to transfer the water from the river to the tribe besides walking it all the way there and it was just much more simple to live closer to the river so the Indians didn’t have to walk as far. Not only did the river provide the Indians with a source of water and food such as mussels, clams, and fish but it was also considered an easier means of travel. Instead of having to walk several miles or even several hundreds of miles, it was just easier to hop onto a small boat and row your way to the next tribe. This provided them with an easier way to trade or barter goods for other goods. It also meant that they could travel a couple hundred miles from one tribe to another, and if they were trading corn or tomatoes or any type of vegetable, they would not go bad before they got back to their own…
Mississippi River. The battle began in the morning of January 8, 1815. There were well…
“west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has…
The Oregon Trail was an overland route used by migrants to travel from the East to the West all the way to the Oregon territory. Which included, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Western Montana and Wyoming. This trail ran 2,000 miles and more than 50,000 people used the trail between 1841 and 1860s. At the early 1800s, the United States began the westward expansion beyond the Mississippi River, which was controlled by France, Spain, and Britain. Today the trail is a designated a National Historic Trail, and is governed by the National Park Service.…
Many things change the surface of the earth, and one of those things is water. The course of rivers and creation of lakes can be attributed to receding glaciers, and rivers have made changes to landscapes from steep mountains to flat floodplains. As well as humans creating many changes in the flow and direction of rivers and creation and draining of lakes. Some changes happen very rapidly, such as building a dam and creating a lake within a short period of time. Some changes happen over thousands of years, such as glacial movement. Michigan is a unique place in the world, surrounded by glacially carved lakes and dotted all over with lakes, rivers, and bogs. All of these forces have changed the surface…
the "upper" Creeks along the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers and the "lower" Creeks along the Chattahoochie River.…
The river opened in three different Texas areas: Real County, Leakey, and Uvalde. In Real County, Texas, cool springs create the West Frio River, which then joins the East and Dry Frio Rivers in Leakey and Uvalde. For two-hundred miles, the river runs southeast until it drops off into the Nueces River. Perhaps two hundred miles is too long for a day ride, but the feeling remains. For years, I plead my case to tube the river once when we arrived, yet I always lost the fight. The drive only took three hours, which is definitely not long enough to get tired. Well, to each their…
Bowen, William G., Derek Bok. The Shape of the River. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.…
Mississippi’s first people were descendants of people traveled across the being s when it was frozen 1000’s of years ago. Eventually there people made their way across the Americas and settle in various places to become the Native American tribes we know today. In Mississippi there were three major tribes where are the Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. Each tribe settled in a different part of what became the state of Mississippi through the group was different from the others, they all suffered…