Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi

Table of contents

• Before Mark Twain *
• Before Mark Twain - A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi *
• Contents *
• Preface *
• Introduction *
• No Craft So Whimsical— No Shape So Outlandish *
• Flatboat Fleets in 1808 *
• Episode on a Flatboat - The Death of Banks Finch *
• The Western Steamboat *
• From New Harmony to New Orleans, 1826 *
• Time Passes Tranquilly, If Not Pleasantly *
• Joe Cowell Recalls a Voyage in the Helen Mcgregor in 1829 - Or, Twelve Days Confinement in a High Pressure Prison *
• A Lady Writer Reports Some Incidents of Steamboat Travel *
• Deck Passage to Natchez, 1838 *
• The Little Steamboats of the Mississippi *
• Concerning the Conduct of the Captain of the Casket *
• Steamboat Manners *
• Never Such a Collection of Unblushing, Degraded Scoundrels *
• Adventures of the Artist *
• Description of Banvard's Panorama *
• Arrowsmith's Panorama of Western Travel - (Designed for Exhibition in England) *
• On Board a Keelboat during an Earthquake *
• A Little Difficulty with Ice *
• Hurricane at Natchez *
• A Storm Scene on the Mississippi *
• A Severe Time on the Mississippi *
• The Burning of the General Pratte - As Reported in the St. Louis Missouri Republican *
• Explosion of the Steamer Pennsylvania *
• Fever, Fatigue, and Death *
• The "Pilgrims" *
• Reminiscence of Natchez "Under-The-Hill" - My Grandmother's Trick. *
• Gamblers and Suckers *
• Thimblerig, the Riverboat Gambler *
• The Big Bear of Arkansas *
• The Disgraced Scalp Lock or Incidents on the Western Waters *
• Sketches from the Saga of Jack Pierce - Flatboatman and Ram-Butter *
• The Steamboat Captain Who Was Averse to Racing *
• Stopping to Wood *
• The Second Advent! - Tom Bangall, the Engineer, and Millerism *
• Glimpses of New Orleans in 1819 *
• Ten Days in New Orleans, 1826 *
• Carnival in New Orleans, 1846 *
• Index *