The Way of the Mississippi by Raymond S. Spears is about the various white men and Native Americans who travel along the Mississippi River and their stories. Excerpt: "THE Indians who knew the Mississippi River before the advent of Joliet and La Salle named the vast phenomenon " The Father of Waters." White men who live upon the river or along its swamp-land banks now know whence came that expressive term. After one has been with the stream long enough for its novelty to have worn away, acquaintance and proximity do not diminish the wonder aroused by the huge torrent. Far from it!"