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• Frank on a gun-boat (R.W. Carroll, 1867), by Harry Castlemon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frank on a gun-boat (Henry T. Coates & Co., 1892), by Harry Castlemon and Richard Hooker Wilmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frank on a gunboat (M.A. Donohue, 1907), by Harry Castlemon (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River (Vicksburg, MS: Mississippi River Commission, 1977), by Marion Bragg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master of the Mississippi; Henry Shreve and the conquest of the Mississippi. (Houghton Mifflin company, 1941), by Florence L. Dorsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• From canoe to steel barge on the upper Mississippi (Pub. for the Upper Mississippi waterway association [by] the University of Minnesota press, 1934), by Mildred L. Hartsough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steamboating on the upper Mississippi, the water way to Iowa; some river history. (The State historical society of Iowa, 1937), by William John Petersen and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century on the Mississippi : a history of the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1876-1981 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, 1986), by Floyd M. Clay, Bobby Joe Williams, and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Memphis District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meanderings '95 : Illinois/Mississippi River. (Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 1995), by Jennifer Modrovsky, Jack Massey, Bob Williams, Illinois. Dept. of Natural Resources, Illinois Rivers Project, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meanderings '93 (printed and distributed by Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, 1993), by Cindy Bidlack, Robert Williams, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois Rivers Project, and Illinois. Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (Home Book Co., 1894), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol (Gutenberg ebook)

• Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol (Gutenberg ebook)

• When Wm. Avery Stratton owned the Mississippi River, 1871. (s.n., 1935), by William Avery Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (A.H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), by George Byron Merrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, by George Byron Merrick (Gutenberg ebook)

• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (A.H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), by George Byron Merrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, by George Byron Merrick (Gutenberg ebook)

• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
• The pageant of the packets : a book of American steamboating (New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1929., 1929), by Garnett Laidlaw Eskew and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (A.H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the upper Mississippi : recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), by George Byron Merrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, by George Byron Merrick (Gutenberg ebook)

• Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors (Lansing, MI: D.D. Thorp, 1892), by Chester D. Berry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sultana disaster (E.J. Hecker, printer, 1913), by Joseph Taylor Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mississippi (C. Scribner's Sons, 1884), by F. V. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the ram fleet and the Mississippi marine brigade in the war for the union on the Mississippi and its tributaries. The story of the Ellets and their men. ([Press of Buschart brothers], 1907), by Warren Daniel Crandall and Isaac Denison Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of a fire insurance man, including his experience in U.S. Navy (Mississippi squadron) during the Civil War (The author, 1909), by Robert Siderfin Critchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rebel victory at Vicksburg (Vicksburg Centennial Commemoration Commission, 1963), by Edwin C. Bearss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Achievements of the western naval flotilla : remarks of Hon. James W. Grimes, of Iowa, delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13, 1862. (Printed by L. Towers & Co., 1862), by James W. Grimes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi (C. Scribner's Sons, 1887), by F. V. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi (C. Scribner's sons, 1892), by F. V. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion : history, reminiscences, description of battle of Irish Bend, carrying of pay roll, roster, by George P. Bissell, Samuel K. Ellis, Henry Hill Goodell, and Thomas McManus (Gutenberg ebook)

• Frank on a Gun-Boat, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Heritage study. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1998), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of transportation on the upper Mississippi & Illinois rivers (National Waterways Study, U.S. Army Engineer Water Resources Support Center, Institute for Water Resources ;, 1983), by Roald D. Tweet and National Waterways Study (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Improvement of the Mississippi River and its navigable tributaries : notes of hearings before the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives on the subject of the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River and its navigable tributaries. (Government Printing Office, 1882), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rock Island District (U.S. Army Engineer District, Rock Island, 1975), by Roald D. Tweet and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of transportation on the upper Mississippi & Illinois rivers (National Waterways Study, U.S. Army Engineer Water Resources Support Center, Institute for Water Resources ;, 1983), by Roald D. Tweet and National Waterways Study (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of navigation on the lower Mississippi (National Waterways Study, U.S. Army Engineer Water Resources Support Center, Institute for Water Resources ;, 1983), by Floyd M. Clay and National Waterways Study (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Rock Island District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1866-1983 (U.S. Army Engineer District, Rock Island, 1984), by Roald D. Tweet and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of navigation improvements on the Rock Island Rapids : the background of locks and dam 15 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, 1980), by Roald D. Tweet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated in Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Old Natchez Trace (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1924), by Otto A. Rothert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A century on the Mississippi : a history of the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1876-1981 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, 1986), by Floyd M. Clay, Bobby Joe Williams, and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Memphis District (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by George Washington Cable, illust. by F. C. Yohn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last of the Flatboats: A Story of the Mississippi and its Interesting Family of Rivers (sixth edition; Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1900), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Charlotte Harding (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Raftmates: A Story of the Great River (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by Kirk Munroe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Mary Noailles Murfree (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw: or, Scenes on the Mississippi (Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1836), by Frances Milton Trollope (page images at Google)
• With Sword and Crucifix: Being an Account of the Strange Adventures of Count Louis de Sancerre, Companion of Sieur de La Salle, on the Lower Mississippi in the Year of Grace 1682 (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Edward S. Van Zile, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Destiny : a tale of the Mississippi (Editor Publishing Co., 1898), by May Allis De Cou and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Flusspiraten des Mississippi : aus dem Waldleben Amerikas (H. Costenoble, 1901), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (Harper & Bros., 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lee on the levee (The Saravan House, 1940), by Ralph Cannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1876), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (Harper & Brothers, 1915), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi-Bilder : Licht- und Schattenseiten transatlantischen Lebens (H. Costenoble, 1873), by Friedrich Gerstäcker and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Flusspiraten des Mississippi : aus dem Waldleben Amerikas : zweite Abtheilung (Hermann Costenoble, 1873), by Friedrich Gerstäcker and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meanderings '95 : Illinois/Mississippi River. (Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 1995), by Jennifer Modrovsky, Jack Massey, Bob Williams, Illinois. Dept. of Natural Resources, Illinois Rivers Project, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meanderings '93 (printed and distributed by Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, 1993), by Cindy Bidlack, Robert Williams, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois Rivers Project, and Illinois. Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huckleberry Finn (Harper & Brothers, 1923), by Mark Twain, Marguerite Jenison Pease, Worth Brehm, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (Harper, 1912), by Mark Twain and E. W. Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (Harper, 1923), by Mark Twain and Worth Brehm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huckleberry Finn kalandjai (in Hungarian), by Mark Twain, trans. by Jenő Rákosi, illust. by Tibor Pólya (Gutenberg ebook)
• Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi, by Charles Egbert Craddock (Gutenberg ebook)
• The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi, by Ruth McEnery Stuart, illust. by H. C. Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• The River Prophet, by Raymond S. Spears, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (Gutenberg ebook)

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