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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854-1863
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Book title: Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854-1863.
Contributors: George Byron Merrick - Author.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press.
Place of publication: Minneapolis.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: 255.
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Table of contents
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- The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series ii
- Title Page 1
- Dedicated to the Memory of My Chiefs 3
- Contents 5
- Illustrations 7
- Publishers Note 9
- Prelude 13
- Chapter I - Early Impressions 15
- Chapter II - Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves 20
- Chapter III - On the Levee at Prescott 29
- Chapter IV - In the Engine-Room 38
- Chapter V - The Engineer 46
- Chapter VI - The "Mud" Clerk2—Comparative Honors 52
- Chapter VII - Wooding Up 59
- Chapter VIII - The Mate 64
- Chapter IX - The "Old Man" 71
- Chapter X - The Pilots and Their Work 78
- Chapter XI - Knowing the River 92
- Chapter XII - The Art of Steering 100
- Chapter XIII - An Initiation 106
- Chapter XIV - Early Pilots 111
- Chapter XV - Incidents of River Life 117
- Chapter XVI - Mississippi Menus 126
- Chapter XVII - Bars and Barkeepers 132
- Chapter XVIII - Gamblers and Gambling 138
- Chapter XIX - Steamboat Racing 143
- Chapter XX - Music and Art 152
- Chapter XXI - Steamboat Bonanzas 161
- Chapter XXII - Wild-Cat Money and Town-Sites 174
- Chapter XXIII - A Pioneer Steamboatman 184
- Chapter XXIV - A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the "Equator" 190
- Chapter XXV - A Stray Nobleman 196
- Chapter XXVI - In War Time 206
- Chapter XXVII - At Fort Ridgeley 212
- Chapter XXVIII - Improving the River 221
- Chapter XXIX - Killing Steamboats 229
- Chapter XXX - Living It over Again 240
- Appendix 255
- Appendix A - List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River,1823-1863 257
- Appendix B - Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862 295
- Appendix C - Table of Distances from St. Louis 296
- Appendix D - Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876 299
- Appendix E - Indian Nomenclature and Legends 300
- Index 305
- Index 307
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