Boyce is the founding editor of Southlands. His first book, THE GREAT RIVER, was published in 2024 and won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing.
The Mississippi River is big, dangerous and industrialized. But from St. Louis down to the Louisiana bayous, more than 500 miles of the great American river remain wild. And you could have no better guide through the river’s ever-decreasing “wild miles” than John Ruskey.
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