Old Times on the
Upper Mississippi

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Mouth of the Wisconsin River. The ancient highway between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. This scene gives some idea of the multitude of islands which diversify both the Wisconsin and the Mississippi Rivers.

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Old Times on the
Upper Mississippi

The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot
from 1854 to 1863

By

George Byron Merrick

Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1909

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William H. Hamilton, Engineer, Charles G. Hargus, Clerk, Thomas Burns, Pilot, masters in their several professions. From each of them I learned something that has made life better worth living, the sum of which makes possible these reminiscences of a "cub" pilot. 8

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