Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

About this eBook

Author

Merrick, George Byron

Title

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Pasteur Nicole and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Mississippi River -- Social life and customs -- 19th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47262

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47262

Release Date

November 1, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Old Times on the Upper Mississippi — Dedicated to the Memory of My Chiefs
2. 2.Contents
3. 3.Illustrations
4. 4.Prelude
5. 5.Chapter I Early Impressions
6. 6.Chapter II Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves
7. 7.Chapter III On the Levee at Prescott
8. 8.Chapter IV In the Engine-room
9. 9.Chapter V The Engineer
10. 10.Chapter VI The "Mud" Clerk [2] — Comparative Honors
11. 11.Chapter VII Wooding Up
12. 12.Chapter VIII The Mate
13. 13.Chapter IX The "Old Man"
14. 14.Chapter X The Pilots and Their Work
15. 15.Chapter XI Knowing the River
16. 16.Chapter XII The Art of Steering
17. 17.Chapter XIII An Initiation
18. 18.Chapter XIV Early Pilots
19. 19.Chapter XV Incidents of River Life
20. 20.Chapter XVI Mississippi Menus
21. 21.Chapter XVII Bars and Barkeepers
22. 22.Chapter XVIII Gamblers and Gambling
23. 23.Chapter XIX Steamboat Racing
24. 24.Chapter XX Music and Art
25. 25.Chapter XXI Steamboat Bonanzas
26. 26.Chapter XXII Wild-cat Money and Town-sites
27. 27.Chapter XXIII A Pioneer Steamboatman
28. 28.Chapter XXIV A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the "Equator"
29. 29.Chapter XXV A Stray Nobleman
30. 30.Chapter XXVI In War Time
31. 31.Chapter XXVII At Fort Ridgeley
32. 32.Chapter XXVIII Improving the River
33. 33.Chapter XXIX Killing Steamboats
34. 34.Chapter XXX Living It Over Again
35. 35.Appendix
36. 36.Appendix A List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863
37. 37.Appendix B Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862
38. 38.Appendix C Table of Distances from St. Louis
39. 39.Appendix D Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876
40. 40.Appendix E Indian Nomenclature and Legends
41. 41.Index
42. 42.FOOTNOTES:
43. 43.Transcriber's notes

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