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Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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Life on the Mississippi
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1. Table of Contents Chapter I. The Mississippi Is Well Worth Reading About.--It Is
2. La Salle Again Appears, and So Does a Cat-Fish.--Buffaloes
3. A Little History.--Early Commerce.--Coal Fleets and Timber
4. Cut-Offs.--Ditching and Shooting.--Mississippi Changes.--A
5. Sharp Schooling.--Shadows.--I Am Inspected.--Where Did
6. I Become a Passenger.--We Hear the News.--A Thunderous
7. I Try the Alias Business.--Region of Goatees--Boots Begin
8. The Devil's Oven and Table.--A Bombshell Falls.--No
9. War Talk.--I Tilt Over Backwards.--Fifteen Shot-Holes.--A
10. Tourists and Their Note-Books.--Captain Hall.--Mrs.
11. Swinging Down the River.--Named for Me.--Plum Point
12. Murel's Gang.--A Consummate Villain.--Getting Rid of
13. A Melancholy Picture.--On the Move.--River Gossip.--She
14. Mutinous Language.--The Dead-House.--Cast-Iron German and
15. A Question of Division.--A Place Where There Was
16. Signs and Scars.--Cannon-Thunder Rages.--Cave-Dwellers.
17. The Professor Spins a Yarn.--An Enthusiast in Cattle.--He
18. Mr. Dickens Has a Word.--Best Dwellings and
19. Rowdies and Beauty.--Ice as Jewelry.--Ice
20. Beautiful Grave-Yards.--Chameleons and
21. I Meet an Acquaintance.--Coffins and Swell Houses.--Mrs.
22. French and Spanish Parts of the City.--Mr. Cable and the
23. Uncle Remus.--The Children Disappointed.--We Read Aloud.
24. Tight Curls and Springy Steps.--Steam-Plows.--"no. I."
25. A Fresh "Cub" at the Wheel.--A Valley Storm.--Some Remarks
26. I Collar an Idea.--A Graduate of Harvard.--A Penitent
27. A Masterly Retreat.--A Town at Rest.--Boyhood's
28. A Special Judgment.--Celestial Interest.--A Night of
29. A Second Generation.--A Hundred Thousand Tons of Saddles.--A
30. A Model Town.--A Town That Comes Up to Blow in the Summer.
31. An Independent Race.--Twenty-Four-Hour Towns.--Enchanting
32. Indian Traditions and Rattlesnakes.--A Three-Ton
33. The Head of Navigation.--From Roses to Snow.--Climatic
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98. Down Black River
99. The Flood Still Rising
100. The Mississippi River Commission
101. Reception of Captain Basil Hall's Book in the United States
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