Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
by George Byron Merrick
University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-8166-3943-4
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- 2
- Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves
- 3
- On the Levee at Prescott
- 6
- The “Mud” Clerk—Comparative Honors
- 10
- The Pilots and Their Work
- 15
- Incidents of River Life
- 22
- Wild-cat Money and Town-sites
- 23
- A Pioneer Steamboatman
- 24
- A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the “Equator”
- Appendixes
- A.
- List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823–1863
- B.
- Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844–1862
- C.
- Table of Distances from St. Louis
- D.
- Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866–1876
- E.
- Indian Nomenclature and Legends
- Map of the Mississippi between St. Louis and St. Paul
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