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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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| Edition: | First University of Minnesota Press edition. |
| Series: | Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.