item: #1 of 36 id: 11151 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: The Lost Trail date: None words: 36587 flesch: 79 summary: The darlint; if she's gone to heaven, then Teddy McFadden don't care how soon somebody else wears out his breeches--that is, on the presumption that St. Peter will say, 'Teddy, me lad, ye can inter an' make yerself at home, to be sure!' And so, Teddy, ye're sayin' it war a white man that took away the missionary's wife. keywords: cora; day; face; fire; good; hand; harvey; head; hunter; indian; irishman; lost; man; missionary; moment; night; richter; rifle; savage; teddy; time; trail; trapper; village; way; white; wife; woods; yees; yer cache: 11151.txt plain text: 11151.txt item: #2 of 36 id: 12068 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation date: None words: 131464 flesch: 72 summary: I fear there were many men in St. Louis whose conduct was no recommendation to the membership of a temperance society. There were many men of this class ready, no doubt, to swear allegiance to the victorious side, who joined our standard because they considered the Rebel cause a losing one. keywords: advance; arkansas; army; battle; boat; camp; capture; chapter; city; corn; cotton; country; day; days; end; enemy; field; flag; following; force; fort; general; good; government; grant; ground; gun; half; hands; house; labor; left; line; louis; lyon; man; memphis; men; miles; military; mississippi; missouri; morning; natchez; near; negroes; new; night; north; northern; number; officers; order; orleans; people; persons; place; plantation; point; portion; position; price; rebels; region; return; river; soldiers; south; southern; springfield; state; thing; thought; time; union; vicksburg; war; water; way; white; work; years cache: 12068.txt plain text: 12068.txt item: #3 of 36 id: 18184 author: Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) title: Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 date: None words: 17633 flesch: 53 summary: From this showing it appears that either the above authors' zoological knowledge was faulty in the extreme, or else the mound sculptors' ability in animal carving has been amazingly overestimated. Squier and Davis in fact go so far in their admiration (Ancient Monuments, p. 272), as to say that, so far as fidelity is concerned, many of them (_i.e._, animal carvings) deserve to rank by the side of the best efforts of the artist naturalists in our own day--a statement which is simply preposterous. keywords: animal; art; authors; bird; builders; carvings; davis; fact; fig; illustration; manatee; mound; north; sculptures; squier; toucan cache: 18184.txt plain text: 18184.txt item: #4 of 36 id: 23155 author: McConnel, John Ludlum title: Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States date: None words: 80770 flesch: 61 summary: He was a better _citizen_, because he now contributed to the common defence: but he was not a better _man_, because new associations brought novel temptations, and mingling with other men wore away the simplicity, which was the foundation of his manliness. It describes such men as Marquette, La Salle, Joliet, Gravier, and hundreds of others equally illustrious, who lived and died among the dangers and privations of the wilderness; who opened the way for civilization and Christianity among the savages, and won, many of them, crowns of martyrdom. keywords: american; character; children; circumstances; class; country; courage; course; cutler; day; days; elwood; example; fact; family; father; form; french; god; good; grayson; half; hand; history; home; house; indian; justice; land; law; life; man; manner; means; men; mind; nature; new; order; people; pioneer; place; possession; power; present; race; regulators; river; savage; self; settlement; spirit; state; stone; subject; system; things; thought; time; vol; way; western; white; wife; wilderness; work; world; years; young cache: 23155.txt plain text: 23155.txt item: #5 of 36 id: 27394 author: Peck, John Mason title: A New Guide for Emigrants to the West date: None words: 87559 flesch: 68 summary: | N. | N.W. | E. | W. | CALM. keywords: + =; -----+----------+------------+------------+---------+---------+ |; ------+------+------+------+------+------+ |; = +; = =; = |; acres; arkansas; canal; cincinnati; climate; coal; college; counties; country; creeks; east; eastern; erie; feet; following; french; general; good; government; illinois; indiana; kentucky; lake; land; level; line; little; loam; louis; michigan; miles; mississippi; missouri; new; north; number; ohio; ohio river; parts; people; pittsburg; place; population; portion; prairie; public; region; river; road; rock; salt; sand; school; soil; south; state; streams; surface; territory; timber; time; total; towns; undulating; valley; wabash; water; western; white; years; | +; | -----+----------+------------+------------+---------+---------+; | =; | fort; | page; | |; | |april cache: 27394.txt plain text: 27394.txt item: #6 of 36 id: 31907 author: Holmes, William Henry title: Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 date: None words: 20766 flesch: 70 summary: MATERIAL, ETC.--As a rule, pot-shaped vessels are of coarser materials and of ruder finish than other forms, indicating, perhaps, their exclusive relegation to the culinary arts, where nice finish was not essential. A coil of clay forms the apex. keywords: arkansas; arkansas.--1/3; body; bottle; clay; color; dark; fig; form; head; illustration; lines; mississippi; neck; point; pottery; surface; vessels; ware cache: 31907.txt plain text: 31907.txt item: #7 of 36 id: 40143 author: Parkman, Francis title: France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West date: None words: 148925 flesch: 72 summary: [231] La Salle, _Relation de la Découverte_, 1682, in Thomassy, _Géologie Pratique de la Louisiane 9; Lettre du Père Zenobe Membré, 3 Juin, 1682; Ibid., 14 Août, 1682_; Membré in Le Clerc, ii. 214; Tonty, 1684, 1693; _Procès Verbal de la Prise de Possession de la Louisiane, Feuilles détachées d'une Lettre de La Salle_ (Margry, ii. 164); _Récit de Nicolas de la Salle_ (Ibid., i. 547). --Lettre de La Salle au Prince de Conti, 31 Oct., 1678. keywords: account; bay; beaujeu; brother; buffalo; camp; canada; canoes; cavelier; chapter; chief; colony; country; course; day; days; de la; death; des; discovery; duhaut; early; enemies; enterprise; father; fire; followers; following; fort; fort st; france; french; frenchmen; frontenac; good; governor; great; gulf; half; hand; having; hennepin; illinois; indians; iroquois; jesuits; joliet; journey; joutel; king; la chine; la forest; la motte; la rivière; la salle; lake; large; left; length; les; letter; life; long; louis; man; map; margry; marquette; membré; men; mission; mississippi; montreal; mouth; new; niagara; night; number; order; party; place; point; possession; qui; relation; return; river; rock; saw; sea; shore; sidenote; sieur; sioux; superior; time; tonty; town; trade; tribes; vessel; village; voyage; war; warriors; water; way; west; work; years; young cache: 40143.txt plain text: 40143.txt item: #8 of 36 id: 42322 author: Flagg, Edmund title: Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 date: None words: 121138 flesch: 61 summary: Boats like those employed, of twenty to thirty feet beam, and six to eight feet draught of water, must have _uncommon_ power to be propelled up a river, every pint of whose water is equal in weight to a quart of Ohio water, and moves with a velocity hardly credible. It is a trite remark, that few studies are more pleasing to the inquisitive mind than that of the _nature of man_. keywords: account; alton; american; bank; beautiful; beauty; blue; bluffs; boat; bosom; character; charles; circumstance; city; county; course; current; dark; day; deep; distance; earth; evening; extent; eye; feet; fine; flagg; forest; form; forth; french; general; good; grand; green; half; heart; high; history; horse; hour; human; illinois; indian; island; land; left; length; life; limestone; long; louis; man; men; miles; mind; mississippi; missouri; morning; mounds; mouth; nature; new; night; northern; note; number; ohio; opposite; origin; people; place; plain; point; prairie; present; public; race; region; river; road; rock; route; scene; settlement; shore; site; soil; spot; state; stone; stream; summer; sun; surface; time; town; traveller; trees; united; valley; vicinity; view; village; volume; waters; way; west; western; white; wild; work; world; years; young cache: 42322.txt plain text: 42322.txt item: #9 of 36 id: 44268 author: Sealsfield, Charles title: The Americans as They Are Described in a tour through the valley of the Mississippi date: None words: 41576 flesch: 66 summary: With the exception of places of commerce, such as New Orleans and Natchez, the towns of the state of Mississippi cannot be compared to those of other states of more recent date. Its temperature varies less than that of other states. keywords: american; banks; boats; capital; chapter; city; cotton; country; distance; dollars; feet; french; great; half; houses; inhabitants; kentucky; louisiana; miles; mississippi; new; new orleans; north; ohio; orleans; people; place; point; river; slaves; south; state; steam; time; town; union; united; water; west; years cache: 44268.txt plain text: 44268.txt item: #10 of 36 id: 44823 author: Forman, Samuel S. title: Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90 date: None words: 18496 flesch: 70 summary: General David Forman conducted himself so well, that General Washington tendered his aid in securing a command in the Continental army; but General Forman declined the offer, as he believed he could be more serviceable to remain with the militia in Monmouth county, New Jersey, as they were continually harassed there by the enemy from Staten Island and New York. Mr. Forman mentions that his father, Samuel Forman, did not escape a visit from the Tories and British. keywords: boat; british; captain; colonel; country; day; family; forman; fort; general; good; indians; jersey; louisville; major; men; natchez; new; place; river; time; uncle; washington; years cache: 44823.txt plain text: 44823.txt item: #11 of 36 id: 44935 author: None title: Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes date: None words: 36703 flesch: 97 summary: In each lodge were many _mocuks_, many bird cages, with birds in them. BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS. keywords: bear; birds; boy; day; earth; fire; good; hunter; indians; land; manabush; menomini; ojibwa; people; rabbit; saw; sky; sun; time; trail; tree; water; wigwam cache: 44935.txt plain text: 44935.txt item: #12 of 36 id: 47262 author: Merrick, George Byron title: Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 date: None words: 106478 flesch: 74 summary: Fuel: on river boats, 59-63. He is in the records as an intelligent, trustworthy pilot, and held the wheels of many of the largest and finest of upper river boats during the flush times between 1850 and 1862. keywords: 1855; 1856; 1857; = =; april; bank; bar; big; boat; business; cabin; captain; chapter; chief; city; clerk; company; crew; day; days; deck; end; engineer; feet; fort; freight; galena; good; half; harris; head; house; ice; island; lake; landing; levee; life; line; little; long; louis; man; mate; men; miles; minnesota; minnesota river; mississippi; mississippi river; money; new; night; packet; passengers; paul; paul trade; peters; pilot; place; point; prairie; prescott; river; river boat; river men; river trade; run; running; second; smith; steamboat; steamer; stern; time; tons; trade; trip; upper; water; way; west; wheel; wheel boat; white; work; years cache: 47262.txt plain text: 47262.txt item: #13 of 36 id: 47351 author: Hulbert, Archer Butler title: Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West date: None words: 61805 flesch: 58 summary: W., 201 Marcus Whitman, 337 Marietta, O., 116, 121-125 Marietta College, 125 Martin, Captain Joseph, 93, 97 Maryland, 239-248 Massie, --, 124 Mauch Chunk, Pa., 242 Maysville Road Bill, 74 McDougal, Duncan, 291, 296 McKee, --, 189 McKenzie, Donald, 291 Meadow of Light (Lichtenau), 31, 141, 313 Meigs, --, 119 Memoir (Greenhow), 330 Mercer, Colonel, 49 Mercer, --, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 352 Methodist missions to Indians, 304 Michigan, 105 Milan, Erie Co., Ohio, 145 Millstones from Alleghanies, 55 Missionaries to Indians, 304, 309-319, 326-328, 332, 333 Mohawk Valley route, 62, 76, 78, 214 Monroe, President, 191-193 Moravian Brethren, 31, 115, 131-146, 304, 305 Morris, Gouverneur, 35, 210-212, 218 Mounds in Ohio Valley, 170 Moundsville, W. Va., 170 Mowry, William A., 337 NATIONAL Road Stage Company, 199 Neville, Presley, 57 New Albany, Ky., 176 New Philadelphia, Ohio, 131 New York City, 241 North Carolina, 30, 87, 98-100 Northwest Company of Montreal, 282, 287, 288, 290, 294, 296 OCONOSTOTA, Cherokee chief, 90 Ohio, 30, 31, 76, 100, 105, 113-147, 243 Ohio Company, 48, 49, 92, 113-125 Ohio National Stage Company, 199 Old Two-Horn, 125 Ordinance of 1787, 41, 79, 92, 112-115, 117, 123 Oregon Emigrating Society, 331 Oregon Territory, 301-338 Origin of the Erie Canal, The, 219 Owens, David, 166-168 PACIFIC Fur Company, 291, 292 Parker, Rev. Samuel, 308, 309 Parkersburg, W. Va., 167 Parsons, --, 120 Pennsylvania Canal, 249-254 Pennsylvania Railway, 249, 250, 254 Pennsylvania Road, 118 Perryopolis, Fayette Co., Pa., 55 Philadelphia, 241 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway, 253 Pickell, --, 189 Pike, Zebulon M., 272-277, 281 Pilot stage line, 200 Pioneer stage line, 200 Pittsburg, 115, 163, 168 Platt, Judge, 218, 219 Polk, James K., 353, 354 Porter, Hon. The Potomac Canal Company--soon re-named the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company--was formed, and chartered by Virginia. keywords: american; astor; building; canal; clark; company; congress; country; cumberland; day; days; early; erie; fort; general; george; good; government; governor; great; henderson; history; home; indians; kentucky; land; lewis; life; man; men; miles; national; new; northwest; ohio; ohio canal; ohio company; ohio river; oregon; pennsylvania; people; plan; point; potomac; putnam; river; road; states; territory; time; virginia; war; washington; way; west; western; whitman; work; years; york; young cache: 47351.txt plain text: 47351.txt item: #14 of 36 id: 53648 author: Parker, A. A. (Amos Andrew) title: Trip to the West and Texas comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5. date: None words: 93727 flesch: 73 summary: Contrary to the general analogy of other large rivers, it directs its course from north to south. He had a hundred acres cleared of river bottom land, which had been planted with cotton and corn; a large stock of cattle and hogs, which ranged in the woods. keywords: appearance; bank; beautiful; boat; chapter; city; col; corn; country; course; day; distance; falls; feet; general; good; government; half; high; house; illinois; indians; inhabitants; lake; land; left; level; life; man; men; michigan; miles; mississippi; missouri; mouth; near; new; night; north; number; oak; ohio; people; place; prairie; red; river; road; san; saw; soil; state; stream; texas; timber; time; town; trees; united; village; war; water; way; west; western; years cache: 53648.txt plain text: 53648.txt item: #15 of 36 id: 7147 author: Finley, John H. (John Huston) title: The French in the Heart of America date: None words: 121661 flesch: 58 summary: Other men make war by land, but in such vast numbers that, if drawn up in a double file, they would extend farther than from here to Mississaquenk, although the distance exceeds twenty leagues. Other men were important. keywords: acres; america; beginning; cartier; century; champlain; chicago; children; cities; city; continent; country; course; day; days; democracy; earth; east; england; english; europe; father; feet; fields; footnote; forests; fort; france; free; french; good; government; great; gulf; half; history; human; illinois; indians; iron; joliet; journey; lake; land; lawrence; left; life; little; long; louis; making; man; marquette; men; miles; millions; mississippi; mississippi river; mississippi valley; mountains; nation; new; new france; north; ohio; paris; parkman; paths; people; pioneers; place; portage; power; prairie; public; river; salle; saw; says; school; sea; site; south; spirit; states; thought; time; trees; united; valley; war; washington; water; way; west; western; white; wilderness; work; world; years; york; young cache: 7147.txt plain text: 7147.txt item: #16 of 36 id: 7193 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1. date: None words: 7009 flesch: 89 summary: No Tom. Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. keywords: aunt; ben; boy; fence; heart; jim; ling; sid; time; tom; work cache: 7193.txt plain text: 7193.txt item: #17 of 36 id: 7194 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. date: None words: 11190 flesch: 88 summary: Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house. At last Tom could stand it no longer. keywords: becky; boy; boys; face; good; hand; heart; mary; school; sid; time; tom; water; way cache: 7194.txt plain text: 7194.txt item: #18 of 36 id: 7195 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3. date: None words: 9442 flesch: 90 summary: Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, disclosing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt. Tom, s'pose it's Injun Joe! keywords: aunt; boys; face; half; head; huckleberry; injun; joe; man; potter; sid; time; tom cache: 7195.txt plain text: 7195.txt item: #19 of 36 id: 7196 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. date: None words: 10839 flesch: 86 summary: Tom felt happy in his success, for he knew it was the boat's last trip for the night. Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore. keywords: aunt; boys; camp; fire; heart; huck; island; joe; night; pirates; time; tom; water; way cache: 7196.txt plain text: 7196.txt item: #20 of 36 id: 7197 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. date: None words: 8822 flesch: 85 summary: You going to have all the girls and boys? Yes, every one that's friends to me--or wants to be; and she glanced ever so furtively at Tom, but he talked right along to Amy Lawrence about the terrible storm on the island, and how the lightning tore the great sycamore tree all to flinders while he was standing within three feet of it. Part 5 CHAPTER XVIII THAT was Tom's great secret--the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals. keywords: becky; book; boy; boys; girl; harper; master; moment; school; thought; time; tom cache: 7197.txt plain text: 7197.txt item: #21 of 36 id: 7198 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6. date: None words: 8424 flesch: 93 summary: At last Tom said: It ain't any use, Huck, we're wrong again. At last Tom rose slowly and softly, and started alone. keywords: boys; half; house; huck; injun; joe; potter; right; time; tom cache: 7198.txt plain text: 7198.txt item: #22 of 36 id: 7199 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7. date: None words: 10096 flesch: 90 summary: She was surprised to hear Tom dissent. Tom's excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour, and he had good hopes of hearing Huck's maow, and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with, next day; but he was disappointed. keywords: becky; cave; huck; joe; man; night; thought; time; tom; way; widow cache: 7199.txt plain text: 7199.txt item: #23 of 36 id: 7200 author: Twain, Mark title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8. date: None words: 7523 flesch: 91 summary: Tom learned of Huck's sickness and went to see him on Friday, but could not be admitted to the bedroom; neither could he on Saturday or Sunday. About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought. keywords: cave; huck; money; place; right; time; tom; way; widow cache: 7200.txt plain text: 7200.txt item: #24 of 36 id: 8471 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. date: None words: 13674 flesch: 79 summary: These cut-offs have had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of them. The chiefs house contained an audience room forty feet square; and there he received Tonty in State, surrounded by sixty old men clothed in white cloaks. keywords: bar'l; boys; child; country; day; half; look; man; men; miles; mississippi; mouth; night; raft; river; time; town; water; way; years cache: 8471.txt plain text: 8471.txt item: #25 of 36 id: 8472 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. date: None words: 12311 flesch: 87 summary: Mr. Bixby was a hero that night; and it was some little time, too, before his exploit ceased to be talked about by river men. Mr. Bixby, my chief, 'straightened her up,' plowed her along past the sterns of the other boats that lay at the Levee, and then said, 'Here, take her; shave those steamships as close as you'd peel an apple.' keywords: bixby; boat; head; new; night; pilot; point; reef; river; shape; time; water; wheel cache: 8472.txt plain text: 8472.txt item: #26 of 36 id: 8473 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. date: None words: 14410 flesch: 78 summary: It was a bitter pill to have to accept association pilots at last, yet captains and owners agreed that there was no other way. By this time about half the boats had none but association pilots, and the other half had none but outsiders. keywords: association; boat; captain; day; dollars; half; long; man; new; night; pilot; river; sounding; thing; time; wages; water; way cache: 8473.txt plain text: 8473.txt item: #27 of 36 id: 8474 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 4. date: None words: 11206 flesch: 80 summary: He was having good times now; for his boss, George Ealer, was as kindhearted as Brown wasn't. Citizens crowd the decks of boats that are not to go, in order to see the sight. keywords: boat; brown; cut; days; head; miles; new; orleans; pilot; river; run; sir; time; way cache: 8474.txt plain text: 8474.txt item: #28 of 36 id: 8475 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 5. date: None words: 8237 flesch: 79 summary: In those times, the principal saloons were always populous with river men; given fifty players present, thirty or thirty-five were likely to be from the river. This is in the hands--along the two thousand miles of river between St. Paul and New Orleans---of two or three close corporations well fortified with capital; and by able and thoroughly business-like management and system, these make a sufficiency of money out of what is left of the once prodigious steamboating industry. keywords: alligator; day; good; louis; man; new; people; river; time; town; water; way; years cache: 8475.txt plain text: 8475.txt item: #29 of 36 id: 8476 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 6. date: None words: 13567 flesch: 73 summary: During our trip to New Orleans and back, we had many conversations with river men, planters, journalists, and officers of the River Commission-- with conflicting and confusing results. This gentleman said-- 'There's been more than one feud around here, in old times, but I reckon the worst one was between the Darnells and the Watsons. keywords: boat; day; days; good; head; house; island; man; men; miles; mississippi; negro; new; pilot; river; shore; time; water; way; years cache: 8476.txt plain text: 8476.txt item: #30 of 36 id: 8477 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. date: None words: 11755 flesch: 80 summary: Said he, 'I will not deceive you; he told me such a monstrous lie once, that it swelled my left ear up, and spread it so that I was actually not able to see out around it; it remained so for months, and people came miles to see me fan myself with it. Among other things, he said that Arkansas had been injured and kept back by generations of exaggerations concerning the mosquitoes here. keywords: adler; day; good; hands; man; money; napoleon; night; river; thing; thumb; time; town; vicksburg; way; years cache: 8477.txt plain text: 8477.txt item: #31 of 36 id: 8478 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. date: None words: 8368 flesch: 73 summary: Chapter 38 The House Beautiful WE took passage in a Cincinnati boat for New Orleans; or on a Cincinnati boat--either is correct; the former is the eastern form of putting it, the latter the western. To a few people living in New Orleans and St. Louis, they were not magnificent, perhaps; not palaces; but to the great majority of those populations, and to the entire populations spread over both banks between Baton Rouge and St. Louis, they were palaces; they tallied with the citizen's dream of what magnificence was, and satisfied it. keywords: backus; cattle; cincinnati; day; house; ice; mabry; man; natchez; new; o'connor; oil; orleans; river; shot; time; way; white cache: 8478.txt plain text: 8478.txt item: #32 of 36 id: 8479 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. date: None words: 54688 flesch: 77 summary: In a Memphis graveyard is buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, in White River, to save the lives of other men. Soon, very soon, a party of young men will arrive and apply to me for aid; but alas! keywords: bear; black; boat; book; boy; captain; city; country; course; day; dead; end; fact; feet; general; good; hand; head; house; left; letter; life; lodge; look; louis; man; men; miles; mississippi; new; night; orleans; people; pilot; place; river; saw; sort; state; sunday; talk; thing; thought; time; town; war; water; way; white; work; world; years cache: 8479.txt plain text: 8479.txt item: #33 of 36 id: 8480 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. date: None words: 8053 flesch: 75 summary: In a Memphis graveyard is buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, in White River, to save the lives of other men. Chapter 46 Enchantments and Enchanters THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to sample--the Mardi-Gras festivities. keywords: boat; captain; life; man; new; orleans; pilot; river; time; walter; years cache: 8480.txt plain text: 8480.txt item: #34 of 36 id: 8481 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. date: None words: 13508 flesch: 76 summary: Same verdict concerning other boys. In my terror and misery, I meanly began to suggest other boys, and mention acts of theirs which were wickeder than mine, and peculiarly needed punishment--and I tried to pretend to myself that I was simply doing this in a casual way, and without intent to divert the heavenly attention to them for the purpose of getting rid of it myself. keywords: boy; letter; life; louis; man; morning; new; people; prison; school; sunday; thought; time; town; years cache: 8481.txt plain text: 8481.txt item: #35 of 36 id: 8482 author: Twain, Mark title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. date: None words: 23950 flesch: 77 summary: Soon, very soon, a party of young men will arrive and apply to me for aid; but alas! A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?' Observe, now, how history becomes defiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men. keywords: bear; black; city; country; day; feet; general; head; house; lodge; man; men; miles; mississippi; new; night; paul; people; place; river; saw; time; war; water; way; work; years cache: 8482.txt plain text: 8482.txt item: #36 of 36 id: 9153 author: Le Page du Pratz title: The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi date: None words: 147708 flesch: 67 summary: There and then it was the succours from Canada arrived, consisting of French, Iroquois, Hurons, Episingles, Algonquins, and other nations: and soon after arrived the new Commandant of the Illinois, with the garrison, inhabitants, and neighbouring Indians, all that he could bring together, with a great number of horses. Being the first who were acquainted with its beauty and fertility, they {283} published them to other nations. keywords: account; america; banks; black; chief; coast; colony; come; commandant; country; cut; day; days; distance; earth; east; feet; fine; fire; fish; fort; france; french; general; good; ground; half; head; inches; indians; inhabitants; kind; lands; leagues; leaves; left; length; louisiana; manner; men; mexico; missisippi; natchez; nation; natives; new; north; number; order; orleans; parts; people; place; present; red; river; saw; sea; set; soil; spaniards; sun; thing; time; tobacco; trees; war; warriors; water; way; west; white; women; wood; years cache: 9153.txt plain text: 9153.txt