An edition of Old times on the upper Mississippi
(1909)
Old times on the upper Mississippi
the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863
by George Byron Merrick
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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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Table of Contents
-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; a Wreck
-A Stray Nobleman
-In War Time
-At Fort Ridgeley
-Improving the River
-Killing Steamboats
-Living it Over Again
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Includes index.
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| April 13, 2014 | Edited by Ted Lienhart | added description and TOC |
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