Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
Dedicated to the Memory of My Chiefs
Contents
Illustrations
Prelude
Chapter I Early Impressions
Chapter II Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves
Chapter III On the Levee at Prescott
Chapter IV In the Engine-room
Chapter V The Engineer
Chapter VI The "Mud" Clerk[2]—Comparative Honors
Chapter VII Wooding Up
Chapter VIII The Mate
Chapter IX The "Old Man"
Chapter X The Pilots and Their Work
Chapter XI Knowing the River
Chapter XII The Art of Steering
Chapter XIII An Initiation
Chapter XIV Early Pilots
Chapter XV Incidents of River Life
Chapter XVI Mississippi Menus
Chapter XVII Bars and Barkeepers
Chapter XVIII Gamblers and Gambling
Chapter XIX Steamboat Racing
Chapter XX Music and Art
Chapter XXI Steamboat Bonanzas
Chapter XXII Wild-cat Money and Town-sites
Chapter XXIII A Pioneer Steamboatman
Chapter XXIV A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the "Equator"
Chapter XXV A Stray Nobleman
Chapter XXVI In War Time
Chapter XXVII At Fort Ridgeley
Chapter XXVIII Improving the River
Chapter XXIX Killing Steamboats
Chapter XXX Living It Over Again
Appendix
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
Index
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