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PART 3: Anne Sherve-Ose and the Intrepid Voyageuses of Mid-America
Twenty-nine locks and dams provide a "stairway of water" to boats of all sizes sailing the Mississippi River. The first, lock & dam No. 1, is at Minneapolis, and they're numbered consecutively as you move south along the river. The photo …