Prelude; 1 Early Impressions; 2 Indians, Dugouts, and Wolves; 3 On the Levee at Prescott; 4 In the Engine-room; 5 The Engineer; 6 The "Mud" Clerk -- Comparative Honors; 7 Wooding Up; 8 The Mate; 9 The "Old Man"; 10 The Pilots and Their Work; 11 Knowing the River; 12 The Art of Steering; 13 An Initiation; 14 Early Pilots; 15 Incidents of River Life; 16 Mississippi Menus; 17 Bars and Barkeepers; 18 Gamblers and Gambling; 19 Steamboat Racing; 20 Music and Art; 21 Steamboat Bonanzas; 22 Wild-cat Money and Town-sites; 23 A Pioneer Steamboatman; 24 A Versatile Commander
Summary
George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merricks narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations
Notes
Originally published: Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1909
Includes index
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