Old times on the upper Mississippi
Subtitle: the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863
By: by George Byron Merrick.
Contributors: Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: A.H. Clark Co.
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Merrick, George Byron; River life -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century; River boats -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century; Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River -- Biography; Steam-navigation -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River Valley; Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: -Early Impressions; title: -Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves; title: -On the Levee at Prescott; title: -In the Engine-room; title: -The Engineer; title: -The “Mud” Clerk-Comparative Honors; title: -Wooding Up; title: -The Mate; title: -The “Old Man”; title: -The Pilots and their Work; title: -Knowing the River; title: -The Art of Steering; title: -An Initiation; title: -Early Pilots; title: -Incidents of River Life; title: -Mississippi Menus; title: -Bars and Barkeepers; title: -Gamblers and Gambling; title: -Steamboat Racing; title: -Music and Art; title: -Steamboat Bonanzas; title: -Wild-cat Money and Town-sites; title: -A Pioneer Steamboatman; title: -A Versatile Commander; a Wreck; title: -A Stray Nobleman; title: -In War Time; title: -At Fort Ridgeley; title: -Improving the River; title: -Killing Steamboats; title: -Living it Over Again