I've been working on my Roughing It videos and lessons and came across discussions of sawyers as nuisances to navigation. In these instances they referred to the Missouri rather than the Mississippi. I was just thinking that the thought of them being nuisances might have inspired Twain to name his most popular nuisance Sawyer, Tom Sawyer. -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com