. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . CHAPTER XII AT LINCOLNS HOME. The Mississippi Valley — Pioneers of France — /;/ Lincoln s Land— TheSimplicity of it All— The American—A Rebels Tribute. LL aboard ! once again. Then, along the bluffs of the Mis-sissippi, they rode five-and-twenty miles to terraced Altonand its white-paved hill-slope, where, across the river, theturbid Missouri, rolling down from its source in the Rockies,nearly three thousand miles away, joins its flood to thetideless Mississippi, bound for the blue waters of t
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . CHAPTER XII AT LINCOLNS HOME. The Mississippi Valley — Pioneers of France — /;/ Lincoln s Land— TheSimplicity of it All— The American—A Rebels Tribute. LL aboard ! once again. Then, along the bluffs of the Mis-sissippi, they rode five-and-twenty miles to terraced Altonand its white-paved hill-slope, where, across the river, theturbid Missouri, rolling down from its source in the Rockies,nearly three thousand miles away, joins its flood to thetideless Mississippi, bound for the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, twelvehundred miles to the south. That is what Uncle Tom told them as, at Edwardsville, five miles belowAlton, they first saw the Missouri. It seemed to link them more closely tothe great Northwest and the last of the borderers. The young travelers, in-deed, were quite bewildered by the joint statistics of the Mississippi andMissouri flung at them by Uncle Tom. He told them that the Missouri was really the main stream ; that thelength of the great river from its sourc
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