| p. 17 |
| The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about | |
| It is Remarkable | |
| Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower | |
| It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud | |
| It was First Seen in 1542 | |
| It is Older than some Pages in European History | |
| De Soto has the Pull | |
| Older than the Atlantic Coast | |
| Some Half-breeds chip in | |
| La Salle Thinks he will Take a Hand | |
| p. 26 |
| La Salle again Appears, and so does a Cat-fish | |
| Buffaloes also | |
| Some Indian Paintings are Seen on the Rocks | |
| "The Father of Waters" does not Flow into the Pacific | |
| More History and Indians | |
| Some Curious Performances | |
| Not Early English | |
| Natchez, or the Site of it, is Approached | |
| p. 34 |
| A little History | |
| Early Commerce | |
| Coal Fleets and Timber Rafts | |
| We start on a Voyage | |
| I seek Information | |
| Some Music | |
| The Trouble begins | |
| Tall Talk | |
| The Child of Calamity | |
| Ground and lofty Tumbling | |
| The Wash-up | |
| Business and Statistics | |
| Mysterious Band | |
| Thunder and Lightning | |
| The Captain speaks | |
| Allbright weep | |
| The Mystery settled | |
| Chaff | |
| I am Discovered | |
| Some Artwork proposed | |
| I give an Account of Myself | |
| Released | |
| p. 52 |
| The Boys' Ambition | |
| Village Scenes | |
| Steamboat Pictures | |
| A Heavy Swell | |
| A Runaway | |
| p. 59 |
| A Traveller | |
| A Lively Talker | |
| A Wild-cat Victim | |
| p. 64 |
| Besieging the Pilot | |
| Taken along | |
| Spoiling a Nap | |
| Fishing for a Plantation | |
| "Points" on the River | |
| A Gorgeous Pilothouse | |
| p. 74 |
| River Inspectors | |
| Cottonwoods and Plum Point | |
| Hat-Island Crossing | |
| Touch and Go | |
| It is a Go | |
| A Lightning Pilot | |
| p. 83 |
| A Heavy-loaded Big Gun | |
| Sharp Sights in Darkness | |
| Abandoned to his Fate | |
| Scraping the Banks | |
| Learn him or Kill him | |
| p. 92 |
| Shake the Reef | |
| Reason Dethroned | |
| The Face of the Water | |
| A Bewitching Scene | |
| Romance and Beauty | |
| p. 101 |
| Putting on Airs | |
| Taken down a bit | |
| Learn it as it is | |
| The River Rising | |
| p. 103 |
| In the Tract Business | |
| Effects of the Rise | |
| Plantations gone | |
| A Measureless Sea | |
| A Somnambulist Pilot | |
| Supernatural Piloting | |
| Nobody there | |
| All Saved | |
| p. 118 |
| Low Water | |
| Yawl sounding | |
| Buoys and Lanterns | |
| Cubs and Soundings | |
| The Boat Sunk | |
| Seeking the Wrecked | |
| p. 126 |
| A Pilot's Memory | |
| Wages soaring | |
| A Universal Grasp | |
| Skill and Nerve | |
| Testing a "Cub" | |
| "Back her for Life" | |
| A Good Lesson | |
| p. 137 |
| Pilots and Captains | |
| High-priced Pilots | |
| Pilots in Demand | |
| A Whistler | |
| A cheap Trade | |
| Two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar Speed | |
| p. 146 |
| New Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association | |
| Crutches and Wages | |
| Putting on Airs | |
| The Captains Weaken | |
| The Association Laughs | |
| The Secret Sign | |
| An Admirable System | |
| Rough on Outsiders | |
| A Tight Monopoly | |
| No Loophole | |
| The Railroads and the War | |
| p. 161 |
| All Aboard | |
| A Glorious Start | |
| Loaded to Win | |
| Bands and Bugles | |
| Boats and Boats | |
| Racers and Racing | |
| p. 178 |
| Cut-offs | |
| Ditching and Shooting | |
| Mississippi Changes | |
| A Wild Night | |
| Swearing and Guessing | |
| Stephen in Debt | |
| He Confuses his Creditors | |
| He makes a New Deal | |
| Will Pay them Alphabetically | |
| p. 180 |
| Sharp Schooling | |
| Shadows | |
| I am Inspected | |
| Where did you get them Shoes? | |
| Poll her Down | |
| I want to kill Brown | |
| I try to run her | |
| I am Complimented | |
| p. 188 |
| A Question of Veracity | |
| A Little Unpleasantness | |
| I have an Audience with the Captain | |
| Mr. Brown Retires | |
| p. 194 |
| I become a Passenger | |
| We hear the News | |
| A Thunderous Crash | |
| They Stand to their Posts | |
| In the Blazing Sun | |
| A Grewsome Spectacle | |
| His Hour has Struck | |
| p. 202 |
| I get my License | |
| The War Begins | |
| I become a Jack-of-all-trades | |
| p. 203 |
| I try the Alias Business | |
| Region of Goatees | |
| Boots begin to Appear | |
| The River Man is Missing | |
| The Young Man is Discouraged | |
| Specimen Water | |
| A Fine Quality of Smoke | |
| A Supreme Mistake | |
| We Inspect the Town | |
| Desolation Way-traffic | |
| A Wood-yard | |
| p. 213 |
| Old French Settlements | |
| We start for Memphis | |
| Young Ladies and Russia-leather Bags | |
| p. 217 |
| I receive some Information | |
| Alligator Boats | |
| Alligator Talk | |
| She was a Rattler to go | |
| I am Found Out | |
| p. 224 |
| The Devil's Oven and Table | |
| A Bombshell falls | |
| No Whitewash | |
| Thirty Years on the River | |
| Mississippi Uniforms | |
| Accidents and Casualties | |
| Two Hundred Wrecks | |
| A Loss to Literature | |
| Sunday-Schools and Brick Masons | |
| p. 232 |
| War Talk | |
| I Tilt over Backwards | |
| Fifteen Shot-holes | |
| A Plain Story | |
| Wars and Feuds | |
| Darnell versus Watson | |
| A Gang and a Woodpile | |
| Western Grammar | |
| River Changes | |
| New Madrid | |
| Floods and Falls | |
| p. 241 |
| Tourists and their Note-books | |
| Captain Hall | |
| Mrs. Trollope's Emotions | |
| Hon. Charles Augustus Murray's Sentiment | |
| Captain Marryat's Sensations | |
| Alexander Mackay's Feelings | |
| Mr. Parkman Reports | |
| p. 247 |
| Swinging down the River | |
| Named for Me | |
| Plum Point again | |
| Lights and Snag Boats | |
| Infinite Changes | |
| A Lawless River | |
| Changes and Jetties | |
| Uncle Mumford Testifies | |
| Pegging the River | |
| What the Government does | |
| The Commission Men and Theories | |
| "Had them Bad" | |
| Jews and Prices | |
| p. 259 |
| Murel's Gang | |
| A Consummate Villain | |
| Getting Rid of Witnesses | |
| Stewart turns Traitor | |
| I Start a Rebellion | |
| I get a New Suit of Clothes | |
| We Corer our Tracks | |
| Pluck and Capacity | |
| A Good Samaritan City | |
| The Old and the New | |
| p. 270 |
| A Melancholy Picture | |
| On the Move | |
| River Gossip | |
| She Went By a-Sparklin' | |
| Amenities of Life | |
| A World of Misinformation | |
| Eloquence of Silence | |
| Striking a Snag | |
| Photographically Exact | |
| Plank Side-walks | |
| p. 279 |
| Mutinous Language | |
| The Dead-house | |
| Cast-iron German and Flexible English | |
| A Dying Man's Confession | |
| I am Bound and Gagged | |
| I get Myself Free | |
| I Begin my Search | |
| The Man with one Thumb | |
| Red Paint and White Paper | |
| He Dropped on his Knees | |
| Fright and Gratitude | |
| I Fled through the Woods | |
| A Grisly Spectacle | |
| Shout, Man, Shout | |
| A look of Surprise and Triumph | |
| The Muffled Gurgle of a Mocking Laugh | |
| How strangely Things happen | |
| The Hidden Money | |
| p. 298 |
| Ritter's Narrative | |
| A Question of Money | |
| Napoleon | |
| Somebody is Serious | |
| Where the Prettiest Girl used to Live | |
| p. 305 |
| A Question of Division | |
| A Place where there was no License | |
| The Calhoun Land Company | |
| A Cotton-planter's Estimate | |
| Halifax and Watermelons | |
| Jewelled-up Bar-keepers | |
| p. 311 |
| An Austere Man | |
| A Mosquito Policy | |
| Facts dressed in Tights | |
| A swelled Left Ear | |
| p. 314 |
| Signs and Scars | |
| Cannon-thunder Rages | |
| Cave-dwellers | |
| A Continual Sunday | |
| A ton of Iron and no Glass | |
| The Ardent is Saved | |
| Mule Meat | |
| A National Cemetery | |
| A Dog and a Shell | |
| Railroads and Wealth | |
| Wharfage Economy | |
| Vicksburg versus The "Gold Dust" | |
| A Narrative in Anticipation | |
| p. 324 |
| The Professor Spins a Yarn | |
| An Enthusiast in Cattle | |
| He makes a Proposition | |
| Loading Beeves at Acapulco | |
| He wasn't Raised to it | |
| He is Roped In | |
| His Dull Eyes Lit Up. | |
| Four Aces, you Ass! | |
| He doesn't care for the Gores | |
| p. 333 |
| A Terrible Disaster | |
| The "Gold Dust" explodes her Boilers | |
| The End of a Good Man | |
| p. 335 |
| Mr. Dickens has a Word | |
| Best Dwellings and their Furniture | |
| Albums and Music | |
| Pantalets and Conch-shells | |
| Sugarcandy Rabbits and Photographs | |
| Horse-hair Sofas and Snuffers | |
| Rag Carpets and Bridal Chambers | |
| p. 342 |
| Rowdies and Beauty | |
| Ice as Jewelry | |
| Ice Manufacture | |
| More Statistics | |
| Some Drummers | |
| Oleomargarine versus Butter | |
| Olive Oil versus Cotton Seed | |
| The Answer was not Caught | |
| A Terrific Episode | |
| A Sulphurous Canopy | |
| The Demons of Var | |
| The Terrible Gauntlet | |
| p. 349 |
| In Flowers, like a Bride | |
| A White-washed Castle | |
| A Southern Prospectus | |
| Pretty Pictures | |
| An Alligator's Meal | |
| p. 356 |
| The Approaches to New Orleans | |
| A Stirring Street | |
| Sanitary Improvements | |
| Journalistic Achievements | |
| Cisterns and Wells | |
| p. 361 |
| Beautiful Graveyards | |
| Chameleons and Panaceas | |
| Inhumation and Infection | |
| Mortality and Epidemics | |
| The Cost of Funerals | |
| p. 366 |
| I Meet an Acquaintance | |
| Coffins and Swell Houses | |
| Mrs. O'Flaherty goes One Better | |
| Epidemics and Embamming | |
| Six hundred for a Good Case | |
| Joyful High Spirits | |
| p. 371 |
| French and Spanish Parts of the City | |
| Mr. Cable and the Ancient Quarter | |
| Cabbages and Bouquets | |
| Cows and Children | |
| The Shell Road | |
| The West End | |
| A Good Square Meal | |
| The Pompano | |
| The Broom-Brigade | |
| Historical Painting | |
| Southern Speech | |
| Lagniappe | |
| p. 380 |
| "Waw" Talk | |
| Cock-Fighting | |
| Too Much to Bear | |
| Fine Writing | |
| Mule Racing | |
| p. 391 |
| Mardi-Gras | |
| The Mystic Crewe | |
| Rex and Relics | |
| Sir Walter Scott | |
| A World Set Back | |
| Titles and Decorations | |
| A Change | |
| p. 396 |
| Uncle Remus | |
| The Children Disappointed | |
| We Read Aloud | |
| Mr. Cable and Jean ah Poquelin | |
| Involuntary Trespass | |
| The Gilded Age | |
| An Impossible Combination | |
| The Owner Materializes | |
| And Protests | |
| p. 400 |
| Tight Curls and Springy Steps | |
| Steam-plows | |
| "No. I." Sugar | |
| A Frankenstein Laugh | |
| Spiritual Postage | |
| A Place where there are no Butchers or Plumbers | |
| Idiotic Spasms | |
| p. 408 |
| Pilot-Farmers | |
| Working on Shares | |
| Consequences | |
| Men who Stick to their Posts | |
| He saw what he would do | |
| A Day after the Fair | |
| p. 415 |
| A Patriarch | |
| Leaves from a Diary | |
| A Tongue-stopper | |
| The Ancient Mariner | |
| Pilloried in Print | |
| Petrified Truth | |
| p. 421 |
| A Fresh "Cub" at the Wheel | |
| A Valley Storm | |
| Some Remarks on Construction | |
| Sock and Buskin | |
| The Man who never played Hamlet | |
| I got Thirsty | |
| Sunday Statistics | |
| p. 430 |
| I Collar an Idea | |
| A Graduate of Harvard | |
| A Penitent Thief | |
| His Story in the Pulpit | |
| Something Symmetrical | |
| A Literary Artist | |
| A Model Epistle | |
| Pumps again Working | |
| The "Nub" of the Note | |
| p. 443 |
| A Masterly Retreat | |
| A Town at Rest | |
| Boyhood's Pranks | |
| Friends of my Youth | |
| The Refuge fur Imbeciles | |
| I am Presented with my Measure | |
| p. 450 |
| A Special Judgment | |
| Celestial Interest | |
| A Night of Agony | |
| Another Bad attack | |
| I become Convalescent | |
| I address a Sunday-School | |
| A Model Boy | |
| p. 460 |
| A second Generation | |
| A hundred thousand Tons of Saddles | |
| A Dark and Dreadful Secret | |
| A Large Family | |
| A Goldenhaired Darling | |
| The Mysterious Cross | |
| My Idol is Broken | |
| A Bad Season of Chills and Fever | |
| An Interesting Cave | |
| p. 468 |
| Perverted History | |
| A Guilty Conscience | |
| A Suppositious Case | |
| A Habit to be Cultivated | |
| I Drop my Burden | |
| Difference in Time | |
| p. 476 |
| A Model Town | |
| A Town that Comes up to Blow in the Summer | |
| The Scare-crow Dean | |
| Spouting Smoke and Flame | |
| An Atmosphere that tastes good | |
| The Sunset Land | |
| p. 484 |
| An Independent Race | |
| Twenty-four-hour Towns | |
| Enchanting Scenery | |
| The Home of the Plow | |
| Black Hawk | |
| Fluctuating Securities | |
| A Contrast | |
| Electric Lights | |
| p. 492 |
| Indian Traditions and Rattlesnakes | |
| A Three-ton Word | |
| Chimney Rock | |
| The Panorama Man | |
| A Good Jump | |
| The Undying Head | |
| Peboan and Seegwun | |
| p. 501 |
| The Head of Navigation | |
| From Roses to Snow | |
| Climatic Vaccination | |
| A Long Ride | |
| Bones of Poverty | |
| The Pioneer of Civilization | |
| Jug of Empire | |
| Siamese Twins | |
| The Sugar-bush | |
| He Wins his Bride | |
| The Mystery about the Blanket | |
| A City that is always a Novelty | |
| Home again | |
| Appendix | |
| p. 513 |
| p. 524 |
| p. 528 |
| p. 532 |
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