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How can anyone paint all the scenery along a river as long as the Mississippi? An American artist named John Banvard tried it in 1846, producing a painting 12 feet wide and over three miles long! To show the painting, called Panorama of the Mississippi, Banvard rolled it around cylinders and slowly unrolled it before an audience
