Contents

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" Clerk—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]
[10] 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; a Wreck[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
A. List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863[257]
B. Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862[295]
C. Table of Distances from St. Louis[296]
D. Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876[299]
E. Indian Nomenclature and Legends[300]
Index[305]

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