Old times on the upper Mississippi

Description:

The ‘Upper Mississippi’ is defined in Wikipedia as the portion north of Cairo, IL, where the Ohio meets the Mississippi, but for this steamboat captain, the southern-most port on the Upper Mississippi seems to have been St. Louis. The northern port was in the vicinity of St. Paul; 800 miles by river. There are a number of photos of steamships, and of some of the locations featured in the text. In the appendix is a list of all the steamboats that traveled the Upper Mississippi from 1823-1863.

subjects: History,  Social life and customs,  Description and travel,  Steam-navigation,  River boats,  Pilots and pilotage,  River life,  Biography,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Mississippi river valley, history,  Steamboats and steamboat lines,  Mississippi river, discovery and exploration

People: George Byron Merrick

Places: Mississippi River,  Mississippi River Valley

Times: 19th century