Mississippi River? For that matter how did Native Americans move down **and up** the Mississippi? Or did they at all?
There are some (controversial) theories that even Viking explorers traveled up the Mississippi from the delta to the confluence of the Arkansas River around 900-1000 AD.
But even in the 1500's until the invention of steam powered boats or paddle boats, how did these earlier sailors travel on the mighty Mississippi upstream? I understand that the river moves at a speed of 1.6 gallons per second.
Did they sail or paddle against this flow?
There are some (controversial) theories that even Viking explorers traveled up the Mississippi from the delta to the confluence of the Arkansas River around 900-1000 AD.
But even in the 1500's until the invention of steam powered boats or paddle boats, how did these earlier sailors travel on the mighty Mississippi upstream? I understand that the river moves at a speed of 1.6 gallons per second.
Did they sail or paddle against this flow?