Old times on the upper Mississippi
the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863
by George Byron Merrick
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.
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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 explorationPeople
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint. Originally published: Arthur C. Clark Co., 1909. With new introd.
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