TY - BOOK AU - Twain,Mark TI - Life on the Mississippi, Part 3 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 2004-07-09; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Life on the Mississippi, Part 3." by Mark Twain is a memoir published in 1883. This work combines Twain's memories of training as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the Civil War with his later travels down the same waterway decades after. He recounts the science of navigating the ever-changing river, his apprenticeship under experienced pilot Horace Bixby, and observations on how railroads, new cities, and changing times have transformed the landscape and culture along America's greatest waterway. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8473 ER -