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Mark Twain's Mississippi

Steamer
Merrick, George Byron. Old Times of the Upper Mississippi. Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1909., Northern Illinois University
Van Amburgh's Menagerie
Natchez Free Trader. 15-17 Dec. 1853., Tulane University, Joseph M. Jones Steamboat Collection, Huber Collection, Trained Menagerie aboard the Floating Palace
Lynch Law in America, Slave Life in America
Benwell, J. An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States. London: Binns and Goodwin, 1853., St. Louis Mercantile Library
Mountain Scenery in Western Virginia
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University, "Nature is there in all her glory." page 306
Feat of Mike Fink
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University, "Carpenter and Mike used to fill a tin-cup up with whisky and place it by turns on each other's heads and shoot at it, with a rifle, at the distance of seventy yards. It was always bored through without injury to the one on whose head it was placed." page 236
Burning of French Missionaries
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
A Town, in Nebraska, of Prairie Dogs
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Heroism of a Pioneer Woman
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
The Gold Diggin's
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Map of the Ancient Shawanese Towns on the Pickaway Plain
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Massacre of the Christian Indians
Howe, Henry. Historical Collection of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Boone's First View of Kentucky
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Crawford's Battle-Field
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Fremont's Peak, Rocky Mountains
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
The Arched Rock at Mackinaw
Howe, Henry, Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University
Caravan of Emigrants for California
Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of the Great West. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1854., Northern Illinois University, (Crossing the Great American Desert in Nebraska)