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The growing millions of the Mississippi Valley are perishing through want of well qualified ministers and teachers , and the Great Head of the Church has latterly inclined multitudes of youth to preach his gospel , and train the rising generation for his service ; but his people have not yet adequately provided for their education . Ice fishers had little action on Lake Onalaska and backwaters of the Mississippi River in the La Crosse Area over the weekend . Anglers were catching bluegills and crappies in the backwaters of the Mississippi River . The species now under consideration is also known to inhabit the interior of Louisiana , and the shores of the Mississippi and Ohio , and their tributary waters , even beyond the Illinois River , to the neighborhood of Lake Michigan , in lat . I was invited to collaborate on a storytelling event that encouraged the local community to envision conditions experienced by those who had set foot on the banks of the Mississippi at ... The tales of the Mississippi riverboats and the characters of the railroads frequently are based on the traditions of canals , specifically the Erie , but while train legends and steamship stories were passed down through the generations , canal lore , along with the canals themselves , did not translate well into future generations . The estuary is hydrologically bounded to the west by the Mississippi River levee , to the north by natural levees of Bayou La Loutre , and to the east by spoil banks of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet . The possession of both banks of the Mississippi reducing to a single point the defense of that river , its waters , & the country adjacent , it becomes highly necessary to provide for that point a more adequate security . It is surmised by the biographers that the young Shakespeare got his vast knowledge of the law and his familiar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop-talk of lawyers through being for a time the CLERK OF A STRATFORD COURT ; just as a bright lad like me , reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi , might become perfect in knowledge of the Bering Strait whale-fishery and the shop-talk of the veteran exercises of that adventure-bristling trade through catching catfish with a " trot-line " Sundays .