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 252
Steamer Mary Morton, ISTlJ; 456 tons. LyiiiK al the kvec, LaCrosse, Wisconsin. ( From a negative made in 1881.) STEAMER Arkansas, 1868; ,49 tons. With tow of four barges,capable of transporting 18,000 sacks-36,000 bushels of wheat per trip.The usual manner of carrying wheat in the early days,…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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