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...Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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... had not yet been constructed) along the river Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a steamboat. The journey was slow because the vessels...

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...y ruinoso conservar en Magallanes colonias auxiliares de la navegación. A la Steamboat Navigation Pacific Company que mantuvo largos años la navega...

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... was high and extensive herself, though not exactly fat; her bones were big, her limbs were long, and her loud hurrying voice resembled the bell of a steamboat. While she spoke to his daughter she had the air of hiding from Colonel Chart, a little shyly, behind the wide ostrich fan. But Colonel Chart was not a man to be either ignored or eluded....

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...day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of since...

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...mporaneous with the telegraph has clasped hands with that which never heard of steamboat or locomotive, and thus hastening backward but a few paces, o...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred...

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...sachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumbe... ...amiliar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scient... ...ever see it so high at this season. Very rough water there, but short; swamp steamboat once. Don’t you paddle till I tell you, then you paddle right a...

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...d helping themselves to it without recourse to money!)Huck and Jim have run-ins with desperados and family feuds and even manage to get run down by a steamboat. The adventures ratchet up when they are joined on the raft by a self-proclaimed duke and a king - shysters both, who spend their time in figuring how to fleece the public in the little river towns. And when Jim is ...

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...s to the Gulf water from fifty four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels.... ...ful to promises and duty, and often picturesquely magnanimous. By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued... ...and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers. But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to abs... ...the forests up toward the sources of the Mis sissippi. In the heyday of the steamboating prosperity, the river from end to end was flaked with coal f... ...e. I now come to a phase of the Mississippi River life of the flush times of steamboating, which seems to me to warrant full examination—the marvelous... ...n our village * on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were on... ...rates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained. Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived up... ...his was distinction enough for me as a general thing; but the desire to be a steamboatman kept intruding, nevertheless. I first wanted to be a cabin b... ...r a long time. At last he turned up as apprentice engineer or ‘striker’ on a steamboat. This thing shook the bottom out of all my Sunday school teachi...

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...iends and passengers’ luggage, all jumbled together on the deck of a small steamboat, and panting and snort ing off to the packet, which had worked o... ... River was ‘open, ’ or, in other words, not frozen. The captain of a small steamboat was going to make his first trip for the season that day (the sec... ...ood as his word, and started directly. It certainly was not called a small steamboat without reason. I omitted to ask the question, but I should think... ... I had seen; and certainly to an English eye it was infinitely less like a steamboat than a huge floating bath. I could hardly persuade myself, indeed... ...NGTON. THE LEGISLATURE. AND THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE WE LEFT P HILADELPHIA by steamboat, at six o’clock one very cold morning, and turned our faces towar... ... is an exaggeration of nastiness, which can not be outdone. On board this steamboat, there were two young gentle men, with shirt collars reversed as... ...by the cars. At noon we turned out again, to cross a wide river in another steamboat; landed at a continuation of the rail road on the opposite shore... ... I could; but of which it will be sufficient to remark that blowings up in steamboats and breakings down in coaches were among the least. But, having... ... OF THE CITY. A CANAL BOAT WE WERE TO PROCEED in the first instance by steamboat; and as it is usual to sleep on board, in consequence of the star...

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...f learning more by actual personal observation. He went up and down in the steamboat; was much gratified with his trip, but could see or hear nothing ... ... as if it had animal life—”these three years. We think he doesn’t like the steamboats. The very last time I seed the old chap he was a- goin’ up afore...

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... can’t trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh wa- ter—steamboats! Why shouldn’t I try to get charge of one. I went on along Fleet... ...s determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy. “I got my appointment—of course; and I got... ...ood heavens! and I was going to take charge of a two-penny-halfpenny river-steamboat with a penny whistle attached! It appeared, however, I was also o... ...y body was full of chills, and my head had nothing in it but that wretched steamboat business. It was evident he took me for a perfectly shame-less pr... ...e was nothing behind me! There was nothing but that wretched, old, mangled steamboat I was leaning against, while he talked fluently about ‘the neces-... ...that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat. I clambered on board. She rang under my feet like an empty Huntl... ... pigeons; at work, when he had to crawl in the mud under the bottom of the steamboat, he would tie up that beard of his in a kind of white serviette h... ...ware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head. I did not move; it did not 37 Joseph Conrad... ...e infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a look-out for the si...

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... standing up out of the middle of the river, big and dark and solid, like a steamboat without any lights. There warn’t any signs of the bar at the he... ...anybody running across us. We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up bound steamboats fight th... ...evel of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves. Right in the middle of the wigwam we made a layer of di... ... old lantern on, because we must always light the lantern whenever we see a steamboat coming down stream, to keep from getting run over; but we woul... ...luffs on both sides. By and by says I, “Hel LO, Jim, looky yonder!” It was a steamboat that had killed herself on a rock. We was drifting straight do... ...in’s stateroom. Seegars, I bet you — and cost five cents apiece, solid cash. Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and t... ...oise?” We skipped out and looked; but it warn’t nothing but the flutter of a steamboat’s wheel away down, coming around the point; so we come back. “Y... ...omes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out... ...od raise — twenty dollars apiece. Jim said we could take deck passage on a steamboat now, and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in ...

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..., even to effect this, on pay ment of a shilling a week to the keepers of steamboat piers and other such places, you must be able, besides, to give o... ... nicety, we may know from their rash exposure of themselves in overcrowded steamboats, and unsafe conveyances and places of all kinds. And I cannot he... ...I went from Westminster to the T emple, one Thursday afternoon, in a cheap steamboat. The sky was black, when I imprudently walked on board. It began ... ...h a trembling hand. I conclude that something supernatural happened to the steamboat, as it bore his reeking figure down the river; but it never got i... ...r last meeting, stood the mysterious Being whom I had encoun tered on the steamboat in a thunderstorm, two years before! His prediction rushed upon m... ...ove ment in it, such changes of light upon the sails of ships and wake of steamboats, such dazzling gleams of silver far out at sea, such fresh touch... ...ny, in the midst of confusion, were hustled on board a 79 Charles Dickens steamboat and lay wretched on deck until you saw France lunging and surging... ...orning than, fifty years ago, all Europe saw in a week. Looking at trains, steamboats, sick travellers, and luggage, is our great Pavilionstone recrea... ...t into good spirits and dance, the flagstaff hoists a bright red flag, the steamboat smokes, cranes creak, horses and carriages dangle in the air, str...

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...k Smoke. Until about midday the Pool of London was an astonish- ing scene. Steamboats and shipping of all sorts lay there, tempted by the enormous sum... ...r, having paid their fares at the gangway, found himself safely aboard the steamboat with his charges. There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant pri... ...at he had no eyes for any- thing seaward. And then a swift movement of the steamboat (she had suddenly come round to avoid being run down) flung him h... ...as steaming at such a pace that in a minute she seemed halfway between the steamboat and the Martians—a dimin- ishing black bulk against the receding ... ...ads to seaward were now quite close and standing in towards shore past the steamboat. The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the iro... ...the northeast; several smacks were sail- ing between the ironclads and the steamboat. After a time, and before they reached the sinking cloud bank, th... ...clearly. A mass of smoke rose slanting and barred the face of the sun. The steamboat throbbed on its way through an interminable suspense. The sun san...

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... Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest on... ...ing the town in a half moon curve, clothed with forests from foot to summit. Steamboats passed up and down every hour or so. Those belonging to the li... ...clear out and see the world—that is to say, she would go chambermaiding on a steamboat, the darling ambition of her race and sex. Her last call was on... ...the work, and infatuated her with the stir and adventure and independence of steamboat life. Then she was promoted and become head chambermaid. She wa... ...d to confess to herself that if there was anything better in this world than steamboating, it was the glory to be got by telling about it. The audienc... ...ot know,” and would think she was traveling upstream. She! Why, she had been steamboating for years. At dawn she got up and went list lessly and sat ... ... as I reck oned, en I had come fifteen or twenty mile, I see de lights o’ a steamboat layin’ at de bank, whah dey warn’t no town en no woodyard, en p...

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...ose silences, because I remem- bered a case which came under my observation once, and which—but I will tell the incident: One evening on board a Missi... ...a boy of ten years lay asleep in a berth—a long, slim-legged boy, he was, encased in quite a short shirt; it was the first time he had ever made a tri... ...ules against the stiff current. The Neckar has always been used as a canal, and thus has given employment to a great many men and animals; but now tha... ...out a majestic snow-peak with the sun blazing upon it or the moonlight softly enriching it—but finally we concluded to try a bit of excursioning aroun... ...il, or horseback, or on foot, as one may prefer. I and my agent panoplied ourselves in walking-costume, one bright morning, and started down the lake ... ...st the ground, that the exactest simile I can devise is to compare them to ant-deposits of granulated dirt overshadowed by the huge bulk of a cathedra... ...d curious. Counties, towns, hilly ribs and ridges, wide stretches of green meadow, great forest tracts, winding streams, a dozen blue lakes, a block o... ...fallen and lodged in slight depressions, conform- able to their shapes, among the moss-beds and the smooth levels of dainty green farm-land; the micro... ...ntioned are tame and unimpressive. Jimmy’s father stopped him from driving imaginary horse- cars one Sunday—stopped him from playing captain of an ima...

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...hich was ungloved, looked hardly less white. Now, as the Fidèle, like most steamboats, was upon deck a little soot-streaked here and there, especially... ...k interest. Not more surprised than alarmed, China Aster thought of taking steamboat to go and see Orchis, but he was saved that expense by the unexpe... ...his land, and especially in these parts of it, some stories are told about steamboats and railroads fitted to make one a little appre- hensive, yet, I...

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...she could not see the Nautilus, being too low in the water. I fancied this steamboat belonged to the P.O. Company, which runs from Ceylon to Sydney, t... ...quare, very much like that oc- 165 Jules Verne cupied by the pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi or Hudson. In the midst worked a wheel, place... ... Norway and the south are rare. And I am therefore obliged to wait for the steamboat running monthly from Cape North. And, among the worthy people who...

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...at he had heard shooting crackers, and seen sol- diers; that he had seen a steamboat; that there were ships in Baltimore that could carry four such sl... ...ng continued a week; people gathered from all parts of the county, and two steamboat loads came from Baltimore. The ground was happily chosen; seats w... ... will take to the water. This very bay shall yet bear me into freedom. The steamboats steered in a north-east coast from North Point. I will do the sa... ...enter the cars; they only went in the day time, even when so examined. The steamboats were under regula- tions equally stringent. All the great turnpi...