| National Post Card Week #!4 May 4-10, 1997 4 part instalment post card. The Mississippi rises in Minnesota and then flows south, following the boundaries between the states of Minnesota, Iowa. Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana on the West, and Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi on the east. The river, whose name means "father of waters" in the Algonquian language, has long been an important transportation artery of North America. |
