...I guess that was to keep their women from "MOUNTING THEM"...
eeeewwwww!
(...that was a DIRTY post...)
...clear as mud...
...there WAS A song written to commemorate this and that is why to this day for the DOMINANT women of the Midwest go wading in the Mississippi bottom lands in the light of the Full Moon while singing...
...It's a TREAT to sink your FEET in the MISSISSIPPI MUD!!!