As the train crossed a river I took out of my pocket the object that had dropped from Caswell's dead hand.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

They were put to work as cleaners at fish farms along the Mississippi River and in wastewater treatment systems.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

These two artists were linked to a nineteenth century group of painters known as the Hudson River School.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

He said Britain would accept nothing but the Columbia River as the southern border of British Oregon.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

As the boat moved slowly up the East River in New York, the doctors put President Cleveland to sleep with an anesthetic drug.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

As General Custer moved through the river valley, he sent men ahead to explore the area.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The little river began to rise. The commander of Confederate forces in Richmond saw this as a chance to smash a large part of McClellan's army.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Now,as they came to the Pecos River, the wagon hit a big rock.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

It would recognize the Rio Grande River as the southern border of Texas.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

As he lifted the basket from the water, the river immediately became calm.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Mist can take you on a boat ride up and down the river so you can see the animals as they come to drink or play in the water.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

The three men moved along the small river as they worked.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

But it did not have the money. Slidell was to offer to pay these claims if Mexico would accept the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

As we cross the river, he takes us through a lock he says has been closed since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Remnants of its 74 stone locks, as well as brick aqueducts that brought it water from the river,remain.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

In addition to touring and recording with his quartet, he's worked as a composer or arranger on the Clint Eastwood films "Mystic River."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

They are known as Asian Carp and the explosion of their population in the Illinois River is a concern to large-river ecologist Kevin Irons.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"There's as many as 4,100 adult silver carp per mile here on the middle Illinois River."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Mule stables dotted the route. But the canal company ran out of money as faster railroads stole most of their business, and the C&O Canal never reached Pittsburgh and the Ohio River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29