George Byron Merrick

Broschiertes Buch

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi

Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

Beschreibung

A long-awaited new edition of the steamboating classic. George Byron Merrick chronicles the entire panorama of steamboat life he experienced in the mid-1800s, where he started as a cabin boy and worked up to cub pilot on the mighty Mississippi. Originally published in 1909, Merrick’s narrative matches lively stories about gamblers, shipwrecks, and steamboat races with rich descriptions of river life and steamboat operations. Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Series

Autor

George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) grew up in Prescott, Wisconsin, at the junction of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers. After nine years of steamboating, he volunteered for the Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War before settling into life as a newspaper editor and publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Univ of Minnesota PR edition
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780816639434
• ISBN-10: 0816639434
• Artikelnr.: 22162769