class="smcap">Steamboat Racing

143    Chapter XX  Music and Art 152    Chapter XXI  Steamboat Bonanzas 161    Chapter XXII  Wild-cat Money and Town-sites 174    Chapter XXIII  A Pioneer Steamboatman 184    Chapter XXIV  A Versatile Commander; a Wreck 190    Chapter XXV  A Stray Nobleman 196    Chapter XXVI  In War Time 206    Chapter XXVII  At Fort Ridgeley 212    Chapter XXVIII  Improving the River 221    Chapter XXIX  Killing Steamboats 229    Chapter XXX  Living It Over Again 240 Appendix    A.  List of Steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River, 1823-1863 257    B.  Opening of Navigation at St. Paul, 1844-1862 295    C.  Table of Distances from St. Louis 296    D.  Improvement of the Upper Mississippi, 1866-1876 299    E.  Indian Nomenclature and Legends 300 Index 305

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Illustrations

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	Frontispiece
Prescott Levee in 1876. Showing Steamer "Centennial" and the little Hastings ferry, "Plough Boy." The double warehouse, showing five windows in the second story and four in the third, was the building in which the author lived when a boy	32
Prescott Levee in 1908. But one business building, one of the old Merrick warehouses, left intact. Dunbar's Hall gutted by fire recently. The large steamboat warehouse next to it destroyed some years ago. All the shipping business gone to the railroad, which runs just back of the buildings shown	32
Alma, Wisconsin. A typical river town in the fifties	54
Above Trempealeau, Wisconsin. In the middle foreground, at the head of the slough, is the site of the winter camp of Nicolas Perrot, in the winter of 1684-5, as identified in 1888 by Hon. B. F. Heuston and Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites of the Wisconsin State Historical Society	68