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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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.
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