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Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

George Byron Merrick · 1909

A 1909 memoir by George Byron Merrick recalling his years as a steamboat pilot on the Upper Mississippi River from 1854 to 1863, describing river life, steamboats, pilots, and the people and towns along the river.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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