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Mark Twain's Mississippi

Mississippi Freight Agent
Merrick, George Byron. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi. Cleveland: A.H. Clark, 1909., Northern Illinois University
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Routes by Streamers to California and Oregon via Charges and Panama
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
San Francisco, California
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
St. Paul's, Minnesota
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
View in Salt Lake City
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
View in the Ruins of the Alamo
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Emigrants' Camp
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University, "At sunset, their day's journey finished, they halt, perhaps, in the forest by the roadside, to prepare for supper and to pass the night. The horses are unharnessed, watered and secured, with their heads to the trough, or else hoppled out to grass." page 261
Okonogan, Oregon
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
St. Louis
Edwards, Richard and M. Hopewell. Edwards's Great West and Her Commercial Metropolis, Embracing a General View of the West, and a Complete History of St. Louis. St. Louis: The Office of Edwards's Monthly, a Journal of Progress, 1860., St. Louis Mercantile Library, Engraved from a beautiful painting, by Professor Devraux, of Philadelphia, taken in 1854, Expressly for this work
Historical Collections of the Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History -- Remarkable Individual Adventures -- Sketches if Frontier Life -- Descriptions of Natural Curiosities: To Which is ...
Northern Illinois University
Description of the City of Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa; Exhibiting its Geographical and Local Advantages, Which Render it the Only Point in Sixteen Hundred Miles for Bridging the Mississippi, and for the Transit of the Trade between the Atlantic & ...
Negro-Slavery, No Evil, or The North and the South. The Effects of Negro-Slavery, as Exhibited in the Census, by a Comparison of the Condition of the Slaveholding and Non-slaveholding States. Considered in a Report, Made to the Platte County ...
St. Louis Mercantile Library
'Trade and Commerce of St. Louis in 1853' in 'Hunts' Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, April 1854'
Northern Illinois University
High Pressure Steamboat Mayflower
High pressure steamboat Mayflower first class packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River - Capt. Joseph Brown., Artist employed by N. Currier firm.
St. Louis Panorama
Print showing panoramic view of Saint Louis, Missouri, looking across the Mississippi River; many steamboats docked along the waterfront, most named, the largest, under steam on the left is the "John Simonds." Trains approach from the right and left foreground, and there are several wagons and a stagecoach near the center.
Mercantile Library (Black and White)
St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 14
Mercantile Library (Color)
Ballou's Pictorial.1855: 152, St. Louis Mercantile Library, Collection M171 Box 1, Folder 1, Number 15
Bluffs Below St. Paul
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library
San Francisco
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Wheeling
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Lake Itasca
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Frontispiece to The United States Illustrated
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Brown's Fall
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Fort Snelling
Dana, Charles A., ed. The United States Illustrated. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, 1855., St. Louis Mercantile Library