(at)font-face ( font-family: "Times", )(at)font-face ( font-family: "Palatino", )p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal ( margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt, font-size: 12pt, font-family: "Times New Roman", )div.Section1 ( page: Section1, ) "Up on the River" is John Madson's loving and often hilarious tribute to the people, animal life, and places of the Upper Mississippi. Madson's Upper Mississippi is the part "between the saints, " from St. Louis to St. Paul, where for thirty years he explored the bright waters of the upper reaches of the mighty river itself as well as the tangled multitude of sloughs, cuts, and side channels that wander through its wooded islands and floodplain forests.