Before Huck and Jims adventure down the Mississippi, Pap, Hucks father, is found standing in his room at the Widow Douglas's house in (1) St. Petersburg Missouri. Pap Kidnaps Huck and takes him to (2) a cabin in the woods. After Huck escapes he travels to (3) Jackson Island where Huck and Jim start off their journey together. Jackson Island is near the city of Hannibal on the Missouri side of the Mississippi.  They travel downstream with the Missouri shore on the west and Illinois on the east.  After stopping at a towhead on the Illinois side, they continue on past (3)St. Louis and several small towns unnamed in the book.  Their plan is to stop in (4)Cairo, which is located where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi, and get a canoe so they can paddle upstream to the free states. Cairo is their ultimate destintion and will mean freedom for Jim. Unfortunately, they pass Cairo in the night and have no choice but to continue downstream on the raft until they can secure a canoe and head back against the current. 

 

   Soon after Huck and Jim miss Cairo, they stop for awhile at (5)the Grangerford's farm, which is actually along the river where it briefly follows the Kentucky border just north of Tennessee. At the Grangeford farm, Huck meets many new characters including Buck and Mary Jane. They then are accosted by the Duke and the King, who perform at a series of towns including (6)a "one-horse town" in Arkansas.  Because of the Duke's and King's devious business practices, the group is forced to flee further down the river away from the towns, until they make a final stop with the swindlers at (7)Pikesville, which has never heard of their operations.  Huck and Jim end their journey together at (8)the Phelps Plantation in southern Arkansas just north of the Louisiana border, where they find Tom Sawyer and further adventures.