Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
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- Created Date
- 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863
- Description
George Byron Merrick was a steamboat pilot on the Upper Mississippi for nine years. In this memoir, Merrick chronicles steamboat life as he experienced it in the mid-1800s, when he started as a cabin boy and worked his way up to cub pilot. His narrative contains lively accounts of gamblers, shipwrecks, and boat races, as well as rich descriptions of river life and day-to-day steamboat operations during the height of the steamboat era
- Creator
Merrick, George Byron
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Collection
- Rare Book Collection
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Clark Co
- Subjects
- African Americans
Native Americans
Irish Americans
Music
Painting
Storms
Money
Banks and banking
Adolescence
Race relations
Crime
Islands
Landscape
Rivers
Steamboats
Canoes and canoeing
Cargo ships
Ojibwe
Dakota (Sioux) - Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Type
- text
- Language
- English
- Rights
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- Chicago citation style
- Merrick, George Byron. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi. 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/59786. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Merrick, George Byron, (1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863) Old Times on the Upper Mississippi. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/59786
- MLA citation style
- Merrick, George Byron. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/59786>.