He decided to march most of his men down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing thirty kilometers below Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

The fishing ban announced Sunday did not affect state waters west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Its borders are debated. Generally,however, they stretch from Fourteenth Street on the north side, Avenue A on the west, Houston on the south and the East River.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

It is on the west bank of the Nile River,opposite Luxor.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

His army was west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

"Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river."

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

It provided a calm, safe route west next to the river, which is nearly dry upstream part of the year but whose rapids rage in springtime.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

He also is a commercial crabber and fisherman. He says if the shut down continues on the east side of the Mississippi, Louisiana's' seafood industry will survive,because 70 percent of the state's fish and shellfish come from the west side of the river.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08