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Description

1. 323 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

1. The author tells of his experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River during the mid-1800s.

Series statement

1. The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series

Uniform title

1. The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series.

Subject

1. Merrick, George Byron
2. Merrick, George Byron
3. 1800-1899
4. River life > Mississippi River > History > 19th century
5. River boats > Mississippi River > History > 19th century
6. Pilots and pilotage > Mississippi River > Biography
7. Steam-navigation > Mississippi River > History > 19th century
8. Frontier and pioneer life > Mississippi River Valley
9. Mississippi River > Description and travel
10. Mississippi River > Social life and customs > 19th century
11. Mississippi River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century
12. Mississippi River Valley > Description and travel

Genre/Form

1. collective biographies.
2. Biographies
3. History
4. Biographies.

Contents

1. Prelude -- 1. Early impressions -- 2. Indians, dugouts, and wolves -- 3. On the levee at Prescott -- 4. In the engine-room -- 5. The engineer -- 6. The "mud" clerk : comparative honors -- 7. Wooding up -- 8. The mate -- 9. The "Old Man" -- 10 The pilots and their work -- 11. Knowing the river -- 12. The art of steering -- 13. An initiation -- 14. Early pilots -- 15. Incidents of river life -- 16. Mississippi menus -- 17. Bars and barkeepers -- 18. Gamblers and gambling -- 19. Steamboat racing -- 20. Music and art -- 21. Steamboat bonanzas -- 22. Wild-cat money and town-sites -- 23. A pioneer steamboatman -- 24. A versatile commander ; wreck of the "Equator" -- 25. A stray nobleman -- 26. In war time -- 27. At Fort Ridgeley -- 28. Improving the river -- 29. Killing steamboats -- 30. Living it over again -- 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 -- Map of the Mississippi between St. Louis and St. Paul.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Originally published: Cleveland : Arthur C. Clark Co., 1909.
2. Includes index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain