Palisade View of the Mississippi

What did the early explorers of the Mississippi Valley see? How wide and deep was the river? How did they handle bugs? Video is from an overlook on one of the trails. In our modern age of channels, levees, ballast, and all the other means of controlling the river (ha!) I can lose vision of what the river would have looked like 200 years ago. It is nice to stand at an overlook and dream.