Nine were closed due to the flooding of the Mississippi River, said Bill Canter, spokesman for the Tunica Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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His ongoing effort to stretch six miles of fabric over the Arkansas River has proven even more epic, proving so contentious that locals recently took the Bureau of Land Management to court for sanctioning it.

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