Title Before Mark Twain : a sampler of old, old times on the Mississippi / edited by John Francis McDermott

Edition Pbk. ed Published Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 298 pages) : illustrations Series Shawnee classics Shawnee classics. Contents No craft so whimsical, no shape so outlandish / Timothy Flint -- Flatboat fleets in 1808 / Christian Schultz, Jr. -- Episode on a flatboat: the death of Banks Finch -- The western steamboat / Charles Joseph Latrobe -- From new harmony to New Orleans, 1826 / Donald MacDonald -- Time passes tranquilly, if not pleasantly / Thomas Hamilton -- Joe Cowell recalls a voyage in the Helen McGregor in 1929; or, Twelve days confinement in a high pressure prison / Joseph L. Cowell -- A lady writer reports some incidents of steamboat travel / Eliza Steele -- Deck passages to Natchez, 1838 / Henry B. Miller -- The little steamboats of the Mississippi / T.B. Thorpe -- Concerning the conduct of the captain of the Casket -- Steamboat manners / M. De Grandfort. "Never such a collection of unblushing degraded scoundrels" / G.W. Featherstonhaugh -- Adventures of the artists / John Banvard -- Arrowsmith's panorama of western travel -- On board a keelboat during an earthquake / John Bradbury -- A little difficulty with ice / Charles Augustus Murray -- Hurricane at Natchez -- A storm scene on the Mississippi / T.B. Thorpe -- A severe time on the Mississippi / Coddington C. Jackson -- The burning of the General Pratte -- Explosion of the steamer Pennsylvania -- Fever, fatigue, and death / Timothy Flint -- The "pilgrims" / Timothy Flint -- Reminiscence of Natchez "under-the-hill": "my grandmother's trick" / William C. Hall -- Gamblers and suckers / Jonathan H. Green -- Thimblerig, the riverboat gambler / David Crockett. The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe -- The disgraced scalp lock or Incidents on the western waters / T.B. Thorpe -- Sketches from the saga of Jack Pierce: Flatboatman and Ram-Butter / Menra Hopewell -- The steamboat captain who was averse to racing / George P. Burnham -- Stopping to wood / Joseph M. Field -- The second advent! Tom Bengall, the engineer, and millerism / John S. Robb -- Glimpses of New Orleans in 1819 / Benjamin H. Latrobe -- Ten days in New Orleans, 1826 / Donald MacDonald -- Carnival in New Orleans, 1846 / Charles Lyell Summary A collection of thirty-seven stories, reprints from diaries and journals, and other materials published prior to the days of Mark Twain that depict Mississippi River life. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject River life -- Mississippi River HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. River life Travel SUBJECT Mississippi River -- Description and travel Subject Mississippi River Form Electronic book Author McDermott, John Francis, 1902-1981. ISBN 058512812X 9780585128122 9780809321919 0809321912

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