TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twain,Mark
TI  - Life on the Mississippi, Part 1
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Mississippi River -- Description and travel
KW  - Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
KW  - Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
KW  - Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River
KW  - Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_the_Mississippi; Release date is 2004-07-08; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Life on the Mississippi, Part 1." by Mark Twain is a memoir published in 1883. Twain recounts his youthful experiences training as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the Civil War, learning to navigate the ever-changing waters under veteran pilot Horace Bixby's guidance. The work combines historical context about European exploration of the river with vivid anecdotes of life aboard steamboats, capturing a vanishing era of American river culture with characteristic wit and nostalgia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8471
ER  -