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
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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. 8