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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi : Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 /
George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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| Edición: | First University of Minnesota Press edition. |
| Colección: | Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 500 | |a Originally published: Cleveland : Arthur H. Clark Company, 1909. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prelude -- Early impressions -- Indians, dugouts, and wolves -- On the levee at Prescott -- In the engine-room -- The engineer -- The "mud" clerk--comparative honors -- Wooding up -- The mate -- The "old man" -- The pilots and their work -- Knowing the river -- The art of steering -- An initiation -- Early pilots -- Incidents of river life -- Mississippi menus -- Bars and barkeepers -- Gamblers and gambling -- Steamboat racing -- Music and art -- Steamboat bonanzas -- Wild-cat money and town-sites -- A pioneer steamboatman -- A versatile commander; wreck of the "Equator" -- A stray nobleman -- In war time -- At Fort Ridgeley -- Improving the river -- Killing steamboats -- Living it over again -- Appendixes -- A. List of steamboats on the upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863 -- B. Opening of navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862 -- C. Table of distances from St. Louis -- D. Improvement of the upper Mississippi, 1866-1876 -- E. Indian nomenclature and legends -- Map of the Mississippi between St. Louis and St. Paul -- Index. | |
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| 520 | |a George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick's narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) grew up in Prescott, Wisconsin, at the junction of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers. After nine years of steamboating, he volunteered for the Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War before settling into life as a newspaper editor and publisher. | ||
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