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

by George Byron Merrick

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Contents

  1. Prelude
  2. Chapter I. Early Impressions
  3. Chapter II. Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves
  4. Chapter III. On the Levee at Prescott
  5. Chapter IV. In the Engine-room
  6. Chapter V. The Engineer
  7. Chapter VI. The "Mud" Clerk — Comparative Honors
  8. Chapter XI. Knowing the River
  9. Chapter XII. The Art of Steering
  10. Chapter XIII. An Initiation
  11. Chapter XIV. Early Pilots
  12. Chapter XV. Incidents of River Life
  13. Chapter XVI. Mississippi Menus
  14. Chapter XVII. Bars and Barkeepers
  15. Chapter XVIII. Gamblers and Gambling
  16. Chapter XIX. Steamboat Racing
  17. Chapter XX. Music and Art
  18. Chapter XXI. Steamboat Bonanzas
  19. Chapter XXII. Wild-cat Money and Town-sites
  20. Chapter XXIII. A Pioneer Steamboatman
  21. Chapter XXIV. A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the "Equator"
  22. Chapter XXV. A Stray Nobleman
  23. Chapter XXVI. In War Time
  24. Chapter XXVII. At Fort Ridgeley
  25. Chapter XXVIII. Improving the River
  26. Chapter XXIX. Killing Steamboats
  27. Chapter XXX. Living It Over Again
  28. Appendix A List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863
  29. Appendix B Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862
  30. Appendix C Table of Distances from St. Louis
  31. Appendix D Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876
  32. Appendix E Indian Nomenclature and Legends

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