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Before Mark Twain : a sampler of old, old times on the Mississippi /

A collection of thirty-seven stories, reprints from diaries and journals, and other materials published prior to the days of Mark Twain that depict Mississippi River life. -- Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McDermott, John Francis, 1902-1981
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Edición:Pbk. ed.
Colección:Shawnee classics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a |t No craft so whimsical, no shape so outlandish / |r Timothy Flint -- |t Flatboat fleets in 1808 / |r Christian Schultz, Jr. -- |t Episode on a flatboat: the death of Banks Finch -- |t The western steamboat / |r Charles Joseph Latrobe -- |t From new harmony to New Orleans, 1826 / |r Donald MacDonald -- |t Time passes tranquilly, if not pleasantly / |r Thomas Hamilton -- |t Joe Cowell recalls a voyage in the Helen McGregor in 1929; or, Twelve days confinement in a high pressure prison / |r Joseph L. Cowell -- |t A lady writer reports some incidents of steamboat travel / |r Eliza Steele -- |t Deck passages to Natchez, 1838 / |r Henry B. Miller -- |t The little steamboats of the Mississippi / |r T.B. Thorpe -- |t Concerning the conduct of the captain of the Casket -- |t Steamboat manners / |r M. De Grandfort. |t "Never such a collection of unblushing degraded scoundrels" / |r G.W. Featherstonhaugh -- |t Adventures of the artists / |r John Banvard -- |t Arrowsmith's panorama of western travel -- |t On board a keelboat during an earthquake / |r John Bradbury -- |t A little difficulty with ice / |r Charles Augustus Murray -- |t Hurricane at Natchez -- A storm scene on the Mississippi / |r T.B. Thorpe -- |t A severe time on the Mississippi / |r Coddington C. Jackson -- |t The burning of the General Pratte -- |t Explosion of the steamer Pennsylvania -- |t Fever, fatigue, and death / |r Timothy Flint -- |t The "pilgrims" / |r Timothy Flint -- |t Reminiscence of Natchez "under-the-hill": "my grandmother's trick" / |r William C. Hall -- |t Gamblers and suckers / |r Jonathan H. Green -- |t Thimblerig, the riverboat gambler / |r David Crockett. |t The big bear of Arkansas / |r T.B. Thorpe -- |t The disgraced scalp lock or Incidents on the western waters / |r T.B. Thorpe -- |t Sketches from the saga of Jack Pierce: Flatboatman and Ram-Butter / |r Menra Hopewell -- |t The steamboat captain who was averse to racing / |r George P. Burnham -- |t Stopping to wood / |r Joseph M. Field -- |t The second advent! Tom Bengall, the engineer, and millerism / |r John S. Robb -- |t Glimpses of New Orleans in 1819 / |r Benjamin H. Latrobe -- |t Ten days in New Orleans, 1826 / |r Donald MacDonald -- |t Carnival in New Orleans, 1846 / |r Charles Lyell. 
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