Title: Old times on the upper Mississippi
Description: The ‘Upper Mississippi’ is defined in Wikipedia as the portion north of Cairo, IL, where the Ohio meets the Mississippi, but for this steamboat captain, the southern-most port on the Upper Mississippi seems to have been St. Louis. The northern port was in the vicinity of St. Paul; 800 miles by river. There are a number of photos of steamships, and of some of the locations featured in the text. In the appendix is a list of all the steamboats that traveled the Upper Mississippi from 1823-1863.
Subjects: History, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Steam-navigation, River boats, Pilots and pilotage, River life, Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Mississippi river valley, history, Steamboats and steamboat lines, Mississippi river, discovery and exploration
Places: Mississippi River, Mississippi River Valley
People: George Byron Merrick
Time periods: 19th century