Merrick, George B.
OLD TIMES ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI: THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A STEAMBOAT PILOT FROM 1854 TO 1863.
Clark, Cleveland: 1909
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323pp.(uncut) Illus.(many plates and one map at p.304) Original cloth. Howes M 539. Contains a mine of information on the early steam boaters, Bars and barkeeps, gamblers and gambling, Fort Ridgely, etc. The appendix contains a list of steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863; Opening of navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862; table of distances from St. Louis; improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876; and Indian nomenclature and legends.
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