Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

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George Byron Merrick. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

Table of Contents

Chapter I. Early Impressions

Chapter II. Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves

Chapter III. On the Levee at Prescott

Chapter IV. In the Engine-room

Chapter V. The Engineer

Chapter VI. The "Mud" Clerk[2]—Comparative Honors

Chapter VII. Wooding Up

Chapter VIII. The Mate

Chapter IX. The "Old Man"

Chapter X. The Pilots and Their Work

Chapter XI. Knowing the River

Chapter XII. The Art of Steering

Chapter XIII. An Initiation

Chapter XIV. Early Pilots

Chapter XV. Incidents of River Life

Chapter XVI. Mississippi Menus

Chapter XVII. Bars and Barkeepers

Chapter XVIII. Gamblers and Gambling

Chapter XIX. Steamboat Racing

Chapter XX. Music and Art

Chapter XXI. Steamboat Bonanzas

Chapter XXII. Wild-cat Money and Town-sites

Chapter XXIII. A Pioneer Steamboatman

Chapter XXIV. A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the "Equator"

Chapter XXV. A Stray Nobleman

Chapter XXVI. In War Time

Chapter XXVII. At Fort Ridgeley

Chapter XXVIII. Improving the River

Chapter XXIX. Killing Steamboats

Chapter XXX. Living It Over Again

Appendix

Appendix A. List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863

Appendix B. Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862

Appendix C. Table of Distances from St. Louis

Appendix D. Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876

Appendix E. Indian Nomenclature and Legends

Index

Footnote

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George Byron Merrick

The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

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Chapter XXVI In War Time

Chapter XXVII At Fort Ridgeley

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