Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
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Mouth of the Wisconsin River. The ancient highway between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. This scene gives some idea of the multitude of islands which diversify both the Wisconsin and the Mississippi Rivers.
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi
The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
By
George Byron Merrick
Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1909
Copyright 1908 George Byron Merrick All rights reserved
Dedicated to the Memory of My Chiefs
William H. Hamilton, Engineer, Charles G. Hargus, Clerk, Thomas Burns, Pilot, masters in their several professions. From each of them I learned something that has made life better worth living, the sum of which makes possible these reminiscences of a "cub" pilot.