[DOC] [TLE] Excerpt by Mark Twain | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor [PAR] Nov 30, 2009 ... The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor: 'Excerpt' by Mark Twain, and the ... 
magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the 
dense ... It was on this day in 1900 that Oscar Wilde (books by this author) died ... 
It's the birthday of a writer who described life in the Mississippi River... [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain, 1835-1910 - Documenting the American South [PAR] Biography of Mark Twain, 1835-1910. ... he traced his "Mark Twain" pseudonym 
to his pilot days on the Mississippi River, and many features of his writings can... [DOC] [TLE] CHAPTER 2 Informational Texts Chapter 2: Diagnostic Assessment ... [PAR] Mark Twain is one of the world's most famous authors. ... the Clemens family 
moved to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River. ... He vividly 
recalled those days for his readers in such books as The .... The great Mississippi
the magnificent Mississippiis rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the 
sun. [DOC] [TLE] The Meandering Mississippi River - Stop 150: Mark Twain In the ... [PAR] Jul 25, 2015 ... Mark Twain, from Life on the Mississippi, on the meandering of the mighty ... 
rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun" was more than just a river. ... 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876, Life on the Mississippi 1883, The ... The 
face of the river, in time, became a wonderful book...which told its mind... [DOC] [TLE] History - Dadant - Hamilton, IL [PAR] Mark Twain ... Charles had nine colonies of honeybees, and traveled with his 
young son, C.P. Dadant across the Mississippi River to ... He described living in 
the small log house that his father had built as the happiest time in his life. ... 
Charles died in 1902 and C.P. proceeded to produce four revisions of the book 
himself. [DOC] [TLE] "Old Man River: Life Along the Mississippi River" an exhibit at the ... [PAR] River Days exhibit section ... the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its 
mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun." - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi ... 
In books such as Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and 
The... [DOC] [TLE] Panoramic Maps - Collection Connections | Teacher Resources ... [PAR] The Great East River Suspension Bridge, better known as the Brooklyn ... The 
town of Aberdeen was located in the Dakota Territory in 1883. ..... There are a 
number of interesting similarities between panoramic maps and Mark Twain's 
books. ... the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in 
the sun;... [DOC] [TLE] (III) REYNOLDS, Clark G.  Steam engineering on U. S. western ... [PAR] Advances in steam engineering enabled the river boats to multiply to such large 
.... the gingerbread work to the other embellishments that Mark Twain described 
best: 297 .... Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (Boston; James Osgood, 1883), 
pp. ... Garnett Laidlow Eskew, The Pageant of the Packets: A Book of American... [DOC] [TLE] Characters on the River - Olmstead/Bowcock 212 [PAR] The Mississippi River was important to the early explorers because ... This 
passage suggests that native traders can best be described as being .... majestic, 
the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun." .... 
He chose the pen name mark twain, a river measurement that signified two 
fathoms... [DOC] [TLE] Landscape and Seascape Influence on the American Literary ... - iiste [PAR] rivers and the seas were vastly utilized by American artists and played a distinct 
... Mark Twain and Herman Melville on the other hand developed the influence of 
..... any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the 
..... rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun, but also his most intimate... [DOC] [TLE] KISS Grammar: You'll

Question: In an 1883 book, Mark Twain described this river as "rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun"
Answer: the Mississippi