PREFACE | ix | |
SKETCHES OF THE MISSISSIPPI (between pages 158-159) | ||
INTRODUCTION | xi | |
No Craft So Whimsical—No Shape So Outlandish | ||
TIMOTHY FLINT | 3 | |
Flatboat Fleets in 1808 | ||
CHRISTIAN SCHULTZ, JR. | 13 | |
Episode on a Flatboat: the Death of Banks Finch | 20 | |
The Western Steamboat | ||
CHARLES JOSEPH LATROBE | 26 | |
From New Harmony to New Orleans, 1826 | ||
DONALD MAC DONALD | 40 | |
Time Passes Tranquilly, If Not Pleasantly | ||
THOMAS HAMILTON | 48 | |
Joe Cowell Recalls a Voyage in the Helen McGregor in 1829; or, Twelve Days Confinement in a High Pressure Prison | ||
JOSEPH L. COWELL | 58 | |
A Lady Writer Reports Some Incidents of Steamboat Travel | ||
MRS. ELIZA STEELE | 70 |
Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi
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Book title: Before Mark Twain:A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi.
Contributors: John Francis McDermott - Editor.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press.
Place of publication: Carbondale, IL.
Publication year: 1998.
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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 *
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