LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
BY MARK TWAIN
Table of Contents
Preface: The "Body of the Nation"
Chapter 1: The River and its History
Chapter 2: The River and its Explorers
Chapter 3: Frescoes From the Past
Chapter 4: The Boys' Ambition
Chapter 5: I Want to be a Cub-Pilot
Chapter 6: A Cub-pilot's Experience
Chapter 7: A Daring Deed
Chapter 8: Perplexing Lessons
Chapter 9: Continued Perplexities
Chapter 10: Completing My Education
Chapter 11: The River Rises
Chapter 12: Sounding
Chapter 13: A Pilot's Needs
Chapter 14: Rank and Dignity of Piloting
Chapter 15: The Pilots' Monopoly
Chapter 16: Racing Days
Chapter 17: Cut-offs and Stephen
Chapter 18: I Take a Few Extra Lessons
Chapter 19: Brown and I Exchange Compliments
Chapter 20: A Catastrophe
Chapter 21: A Section in my Biography
Chapter 22: I Return to my Muttons
Chapter 23: Traveling Incognito
Chapter 24: My Incognito is Exploded
Chapter 25: From Cairo to Hickman
Chapter 26: Under Fire
Chapter 27: Some Imported Articles
Chapter 28: Uncle Mumford Unloads
Chapter 29: A Few Specimen Bricks
Chapter 30: Sketches by the Way
Chapter 31: A Thumb-print and What Came of It
Chapter 32: The Disposal of a Bonanza
Chapter 33: Refreshments and Ethics
Chapter 34: Tough Yarns
Chapter 35: Vicksburg During the Trouble
Chapter 36: The Professor's Yarn
Chapter 37: The End of the "Gold Dust"
Chapter 38: The House Beautiful
Chapter 39: Manufactures and Miscreants
Chapter 40: Castles and Culture
Chapter 41: The Metropolis of the South
Chapter 42: Hygiene and Sentiment
Chapter 43: The Art of Inhumation
Chapter 44: City Sights
Chapter 45: Southern Sports
Chapter 46: Enchantments and Enchanters
Chapter 47: Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable
Chapter 48: Sugar and Postage
Chapter 49: Episodes in Pilot Life
Chapter 50: The "Original Jacobs"
Chapter 51: Reminiscences
Chapter 52: A Burning Brand
Chapter 53: My Boyhood's Home
Chapter 54: Past and Present
Chapter 55: A Vendetta and Other Things
Chapter 56: A Question of Law
Chapter 57: An Archangel
Chapter 58: On the Upper River
Chapter 59: Legends and Scenery
Chapter 60: Speculations and Conclusions
Appendix A: Voyage of the Times-Democrat's Relief Boat Through the Inundated Regions
Appendix B: The Mississippi River Commission
Appendix C: Reception of Captain Basil Hall's Book in the United States
Appendix D: The Undying Head