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.
Temas:
River life > Mississippi River.
Vie fluviale > Mississippi (Fleuve)
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
River life
Travel
Mississippi River > Description and travel.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Descriptions et voyages.
Mississippi River
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • |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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