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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

by George Byron Merrick

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Prelude
  3. 3Chapter I — Early Impressions
  4. 4Chapter II — Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves
  5. 5Chapter III — On the Levee at Prescott
  6. 6Chapter IV — In the Engine-room
  7. 7Chapter V — The Engineer
  8. 8Chapter VI — The “Mud” Clerk — Comparative Honors
  9. 9Chapter VII — Wooding Up
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Mate
  11. 11Chapter IX — The “Old Man”
  12. 12Chapter X — The Pilots and Their Work
  13. 13Chapter XI — Knowing the River
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Art of Steering
  15. 15Chapter XIII — An Initiation
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Early Pilots
  17. 17Chapter XV — Incidents of River Life
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Mississippi Menus
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Bars and Barkeepers
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Gamblers and Gambling
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Steamboat Racing
  22. 22Chapter XX — Music and Art
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Steamboat Bonanzas
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Wild-cat Money and Town-sites
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — A Pioneer Steamboatman
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — A Versatile Commander; Wreck of the “Equator”
  27. 27Chapter XXV — A Stray Nobleman
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — In War Time
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — At Fort Ridgeley
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Improving the River
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Killing Steamboats
  32. 32Chapter XXX — Living It Over Again
  33. 33Appendix
  34. 34Appendix B — Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862
  35. 35Appendix C — Table of Distances From St. Louis
  36. 36Appendix D — Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876
  37. 37Appendix E — Indian Nomenclature and Legends

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