The Pacific Ocean is not 'long'; it is wide. But the Pacific is much wider [maximum 12,300 miles] than the Mississippi is long [2320 miles].
Prior to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the western border of the US was mostly the Mississippi River.
Louisiana purchase stretched from the Mississippi river to the rocky mountains.
Mississippi river, colorado rivers
Mississippi River
it expanded from the mississippi river to the pacific ocean.
that it does not flow twords the Atlantic or Pacific ocean
The Pacific ocean cause the Mississippi river flows into the Atlantic ocean and the Rio Grande river flows into the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific is in the west.
No, the Colorado River and Mississippi River are in two different watersheds.
The Pacific Ocean.
Joliet and Marquette were trying to make it to the pacific ocean and on their way, discovered the Mississippi River!
The answer is Montana!
Montana