Life on the Mississippi

Table of contents The River and Its History The River and Its Explorers Frescoes from the Past The Boys’ Ambition I Want to be a Cub-pilot A Cub-pilot’s Experience A Daring Deed Perplexing Lessons Continued Perplexities Completing My Education The River Rises Sounding A Pilot’s Needs Rank and Dignity of Piloting The Pilots’ Monopoly Racing Days Cut-offs and Stephen I Take a Few Extra Lessons Brown and I Exchange Compliments A Catastrophe A Section in My Biography I Return to My Muttons Traveling Incognito My Incognito is Exploded From Cairo to Hickman Under Fire Some Imported Articles Uncle Mumford Unloads A Few Specimen Bricks Sketches by the Way A Thumb-print and What Came of It The Disposal of a Bonanza Refreshments and Ethics Tough Yarns Vicksburg During the Trouble The Professor’s Yarn The End of the ‘Gold Dust’ The House Beautiful Manufactures and Miscreants Castles and Culture The Metropolis of the South Hygiene and Sentiment The Art of Inhumation City Sights Southern Sports Enchantments and Enchanters Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable Sugar and Postage Episodes in Pilot Life The ‘Original Jacobs’ Reminiscences A Burning Brand My Boyhood’s Home Past and Present A Question of Law An Archangel On the Upper River Legends and Scenery Speculations and Conclusions