Old Times on the Upper Mississippi : Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Merrick, George Byron (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Edición:First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Colección:Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Merrick, George Byron.
Frontier and pioneer life > Mississippi River Valley.
Steam-navigation > Mississippi River > History > 19th century.
Pilots and pilotage > Mississippi River > Biography.
River boats > Mississippi River > History > 19th century.
River life > Mississippi River > History > 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley > Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Mississippi River > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Mississippi River > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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