TY - BOOK AU - Twain,Mark TI - Life on the Mississippi, Part 12 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 12." by Mark Twain is a memoir published in 1883. This work combines Twain's recollections of his youth as a steamboat pilot's apprentice on the Mississippi River before the Civil War with his later travel observations. He chronicles the art of navigating the ever-changing river, his training under experienced pilot Horace Bixby, and his post-war journeys from St. Louis to New Orleans and beyond, documenting how railroads and modern cities transformed the landscape he once knew. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8482 ER -