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Captain W. W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 "Red River Reminiscences" /
"W. W. Withenbury was a famous river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences." Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the u...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Taking the challenge
- Up trip of the Concord
- Down trip of the Concord
- The relief and hunter go up
- The relief and hunter above
- The relief at Shreveport
- At Swanson's Landing
- On Ferry Lake
- At Port Caddo
- To Black Bayou
- Up Black Bayou
- At Erwin's Bluff
- At the falls
- Back to Shreveport
- To Red River
- To the raft
- To Pine Prairie
- To Berlin
- To Jonesboro
- To Fort Towson Landing
- To Kiamitia
- At Doaksville
- Wright's Landing
- Home
- Amusements
- Dr. McDonough
- Fort Towson
- Back to Jonesboro
- Back to Berlin
- To Spanish Bluff
- To McKinney's Landing
- At Pine Prairie
- A practical joke: Part 1
- A practical joke: Part 2
- At Nunnely's Landing
- To Dooley's Ferry
- Dr. O.S. Jones
- At the raft
- Near Dooley's Ferry
- Man overboard
- Postscript.