TY - BOOK AU - Twain,Mark TI - Life on the Mississippi, Part 7 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 2004-07-10; Produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Life on the Mississippi, Part 7" by Mark Twain is a memoir published in 1883. This work recounts Twain's experiences as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the Civil War, detailing his apprenticeship under veteran pilot Horace Bixby. The narrative blends riveting accounts of navigating the ever-changing river with later observations from post-war journeys between St. Louis, New Orleans, and Saint Paul, capturing both the romance of steamboat life and the transformations wrought by time and progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8477 ER -