Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (1909)
Merrick, George Byron, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cleveland, Ohio : A.H. Clark Co. · leaf 104
and exclaimed: She is gone! at the same time letting gothe wheel and jumping for the pilot house door. She would havebeen smashed into kindlings in a minute if she had been left toherself, or had the engines been stopped even for an instant. For-tunately the rapids pilot was so scared by the noise… … KNOWING THE RIVER 99 that white water, would pile us up on the next reef below. For-tunately for the Fanny Harris, Tom Gushing was in the pilothouse, as well as myself. When the other man dropped the wheelGushing jumped for it, and fired an order to me to get hold ofthe other side of the wheel, and…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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