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Table of Contents

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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 — 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

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