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id: 8475
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.
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  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.


id: 8480
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.
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  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.


id: 8478
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
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  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.


id: 8474
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.
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  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.


id: 8477
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.
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  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.


id: 8472
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.
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  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.'


id: 8481
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.
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  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.


id: 8476
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 6.
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  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.


id: 8471
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.
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  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.


id: 8473
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
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  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.


id: 8482
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
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  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.


id: 33282
author: Webster, Frank V.
title: The Boy Pilot of the Lakes; Or, Nat Morton's Perils
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  They are down on my list as being taken on this morning, and--er--what's his name--that new boy--Nat--Nat Morton checked them off. But is this Nat Morton, whom you were telling me about? That's Nat, replied the pilot.


id: 8479
author: Twain, Mark
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
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  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!


id: 47262
author: Merrick, George Byron
title: Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
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  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.


