Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain


Table of Contents

Chapter I - The River and its History

Chapter II - The River and Its Explorers

Chapter III - Frescoes from the Past

Chapter IV - The Boys' Ambition

Chapter V - I Want to Be a Cub-pilot

Chapter VI - A Cub Pilot's Experience

Chapter VII - A Daring Deed

Chapter VIII - Perplexing Lessons

Chapter IX - Continued Perplexities

Chapter X - Completing My Education

Chapter XI - The River Rises

Chapter XII - Sounding

Chapter XIII - A Pilot's Needs

Chapter XIV - Rank and Dignity of Piloting

Chapter XV - The Pilots' Monopoly

Chapter XVI - Racing Days

Chapter XVII - Cut-offs and Stephen

Chapter XVIII - I Take a Few Extra Lessons

Chapter XIX - Brown and I Exchange Compliments

Chapter XX - A Catastrophe

Chapter XXI - A Section in My Biography

Chapter XXII - I Return to My Muttons

Chapter XXIII - Traveling Incognito

Chapter XXIV - My Incognito Is Exploded

Chapter XXV - From Cairo to Hickman

Chapter XXVI - Under Fire

Chapter XXVII - Some Imported Articles

Chapter XXVIII - Uncle Mumford Unloads

Chapter XXIX - A Few Specimen Bricks

Chapter XXX - Sketches by the Way

Chapter XXXI - A Thumb-print and What Came of It

Chapter XXXII - The Disposal of a Bandana

Chapter XXXIII - Refreshments and Ethics

Chapter XXXIV - Tough Yarns

Chapter XXXV - Vicksburg During the Trouble

Chapter XXXVI - The Professor's Yarn

Chapter XXXVII - The End of the "Gold Dust"

Chapter XXXVIII - The House Beautiful

Chapter XXXIX - Manufactures and Miscreants

Chapter XL - Castles and Culture

Chapter XLI - The Metropolis of the South

Chapter XLII - Hygiene and Sentiment

Chapter XLIII - The Art of Inhumation

Chapter XLIV - City Sights

Chapter XLV - Southern Sports

Chapter XLVI - Enchantments and Enchanters

Chapter XLVII - Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable

Chapter XLVIII - Sugar and Postage

Chapter XLVIX - Episodes in Pilot Life

Chapter L - The "Original Jacobs"

Chapter LI - Reminiscences

Chapter LII - A Burning Brand

Chapter LIII - My Boyhood's Home

Chapter LIV - Past and Present

Chapter LV - A Vendetta and Other Things

Chapter LVI - A Question of Law

Chapter LVII - An Archangel

Chapter LVIII - On the Upper River

Chapter LIX - Legends and Scenery

Chapter LX - Speculations and Conclusions

Appendix


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