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 196
lowingin its pristine glory, unvexed to the sea; islands, set like emer-alds in the tawny flood, the trees and bushes taking on theirsummer dress of green in the warm May sunshine; prairiesstretching away in boundless beauty, limited only by his powersof vision. Later, as his craft stemmed the… … A PIONEER STEAMBOATMAN 189 channel itself, and lending an added grandeur to the simple beautyof the banks already passed. His unaccustomed eyes saw the wickyups and tepees of theIndians scattered among the islands and on the lowlands, thehunters of the tribe exchanging the firelock for the spear…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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