In T. S. Eliot's "The Dry Salvages," this location is said to be "sullen" and "untamed" and is called a "strong brown God." A work titled for this location includes the section "Frescoes from the Past" and recounts its narrator's time under Horace Bixby as a "cub." A deaf-mute uses April Fool's day jokes to trick people journeying along this geographic feature in the novel The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville. The author's experience as a pilot is detailed in an 1883 work titled for (*) "Life on" this location. A journey along it is joined by a pair of con artists who pose as King Louis XVII and the Duke of Nonesuch and begins after a slave 
In T. S. Eliot's "The Dry Salvages," this location is said to be "sullen" and "untamed" and is called a "strong brown God." A work titled for this location includes the section "Frescoes from the Past" and recounts its narrator's time under Horace Bixby as a "cub." A deaf-mute uses April Fool's day jokes to trick people journeying along this geographic feature in the novel The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville. The author's experience as a pilot is detailed in an 1883 work titled for (*) "Life on" this location. A journey along it is joined by a pair of con artists who pose as King Louis XVII and the Duke of Nonesuch and begins after a slave runs away from Mrs. Watson's house. For 10 points, name this river that Jim floats down on a raft in Huck Finn.
In T. S. Eliot's "The Dry Salvages," this location is said to be "sullen" and "untamed" and is called a "strong brown God."
Mississippi River [accept river on the first clue and prompt thereafter; accept Life on the Mississippi; accept “Old Man River”] &lt;JM, OtherLit&gt;