Broadcast: 30th January 1939

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Added: Jan 31 2013

‘The basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation’ ... once a great man chose that for the first line of a famous book, he went onto tell how the Mississippi rises in the Dakota’s, how thousands of other streams dance down through the rocky’s to join the Mississippi. Then the great shining tide rolls on three thousand miles to the Gulf ... a noble river. Many of its sons have put it into song and story but we feel the man who, of all others, felt most deeply its power and compelling lure was Mark Twain. The river gave Mark Twain to the world and gratefully because he could never forget it, he made the world love the Mississippi. Here is his story...