Old Times on the Upper Mississippiby George Byron Merrick | |
| Category: |
"Travel" |
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| Pages: | 305 |
| Year of Publication: | 1909 |
| Date Added: | 12/14/1998 |
| Date Read: | 02/15/1997 |
| Notes: | Merrick worked as an engineer, mate and pilot on the Mississippi River from Galena to St. Paul. He describes the operation, supplying, steering and racing of steamboats, the officers, crew, passengers, the dangers from reefs, snags and ice. He tells of a trip up the flooded Minnesota River at the start of the Civil War to pick up troops and a return trip in 1881 to relive the old days. |
| My Rating: | 8 |