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• Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768, by Jonathan Carver (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images in Germany)
• The King of Rivers: With a Chart of Our Slave and Free Soil Territory (New York: C. Wood, 1850), by Cora Montgomery, contrib. by Gerrit Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)
• Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org
  • Gutenberg text
• 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)
• Life on the Mississippi (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf (1885), by Charles A. Neidé (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
• A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory, During the Year 1819; With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines (Philadelphia: T. H. Palmer, 1821), by Thomas Nuttall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (Albany: E. and E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Waterways of westward wandering; small boat voyages down the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi rivers (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927), by Lewis R. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & brothers, 1923), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels on an inland voyage through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New-Orleans, performed in the years 1807 and 1808; including a tour of nearly six thousand miles ... (Printed by Isaac Riley, 1810), by Christian Schultz and Henry D. Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Brothers, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. (F. P. Harper, 1895), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years on the Mississippi. (Nixon-Jones printing co., 1889), by E. W. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• A-rafting on the Mississip' (The Century co., 1928), by Charles Edward Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récit de Nicolas de La Salle (The Caxton Club, 1898), by Nicolas de La Salle and Melville Best Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pittman's European settlements on the Mississippi (Cleveland : Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906., 1906), by Philip Pittman and Frank Heywood Hodder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western pilot; containing charts of the Ohio River and of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico; accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a gazetteer. (G. Conclin, 1848), by Samuel Cumings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years as a gambler on the Mississippi (H. Holt, 1926), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das illustrirte Mississippithal. (H. Schmidt & C. Günther; [etc., etc.], 1923), by Henry Lewis and J. Christian Bay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four months in a sneak-box. A boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. (Lee & Shepard;, 1879), by Nathaniel H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the Mississippi (Houghton Mifflin company, 1938), by Rowland Raven-Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The houseboat book; the log of a cruise from Chicago to New Orleans. (The Clinic publishing company, 1904), by W. F. Waugh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States, extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, in the year 1820. (Michigan State College Press, 1953), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Mentor Lee Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal from Boston to the western country and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. ([Priv. print. for Valve pilot corporation], 1940), by William Richardson and William Bell Wait (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the Mississippi (Belford Brothers Publishers, 1876), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The queen of islands and the king of rivers. (C. Wood, 1850), by Cora Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The canoe Aurora; a cruise from the Adirondacks to the gulf. (Forest and stream publishing co., 1885), by Charles A. Neidé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States; extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes, to the sources of the Mississippi river. (E. & E. Hosford, 1821), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mostly Mississippi (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927), by Harold Speakman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (J. R. Osgood, 1883), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3 years travels throughout the interior parts of North America, for more than 5000 miles (Published by Isaiah Thomas & Co., 1813), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• James' river guide : containing descriptions of all the cities, towns, and principal objects of interest on the navigable waters of the Mississippi Valley ... with full tables of distances, and many interesting historical sketches of the country. (U.P. James, 1857), by U. P. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• James's river guide: containing descriptions of all the cities, towns, and principal objects of interest, on the navigable waters of the Mississippi Valley (U.P. James, 1871), by U. P. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Bros., 1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's story of Zebulon M. Pike (C. Scribner's sons, 1911), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Mary Gay Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the great river : embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi : together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the Gulf of Mexico (Hubbard, 1889), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] (Harper & brothers, 1881), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where goes the river (The Tepee Press, 1928), by Albert S Tousley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Barton Griffith, Covington, Indiana, 1832-1834, now edited and published for the first time by permission of his great great nephew, J. Barton Griffith, M. D. (R. E. Banta, 1932), by Barton Griffith, James Barton Griffith, and R. E. Banta (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete works of Mark Twain (Harper & Brothers, 1907), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pilgrimage in Europe and America : leading to the discovery of the sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River ; with a description of the whole course of the former and of the Ohio (Hunt and Clarke, 1828), by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters ... (J. T. Lloyd & Co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd, Robert Fulton, and John Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power ; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton...history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ; full accounts of all the steamboat disaster ; a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes, maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ; lists of plantations on the Mississippi River ; one hundred engravings and forty six maps (J.T. Lloyd & Co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The log of the Alton ; being a narrative of the voyage of the Business men's league to New Orleans, October 25 to 30, 1909, with the record, in part, of what was seen, thought, said and done, during the five days and nights (Printed by the voyages for private distribution, 1909), by Walter B. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the great river : embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi : together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river ... (Hubbard Brothers, 1887), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the great river : embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the gulf of Mexico (Hubbard Brothers, 1893), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• River guide. (U.P. James, 1860), by U. P. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of Banvard's panorama of the Mississippi river, painted on three miles of canvas: exhibiting a view of country 1200 miles in length, extending from the mouth of the Mississippi river to the city of New Orleans; being by far the largest picture ever executed by man. (J. Putnam, printer, 1847), by John Banvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western pilot, containing charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a gazetteer, or description of the town on their banks, tributary streams, etc. ... (N. & G. Guilford, 1829), by Samuel Cumings (page images at HathiTrust)
• When Wm. Avery Stratton owned the Mississippi River, 1871. (s.n., 1935), by William Avery Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage au Nouveau-Mexique, à la suite d'une expédition ordonnée par le gouvernement des États-Unis, pour reconnoître les sources des rivières Arkansas, Kansés, La Plate, et Pierre-Jaune, dans l'intérieur de la Louisiane occidentale. Précédé d'une excursion aux sources du Mississippi, pendant les années 1805, 1806, et 1807. (D'Hautel, 1812), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and M. Breton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. (R. Clarke & co., 1888), by Samuel S. Forman and Lyman Copeland Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (Devol & Haines, 1887), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi (The A. H. Clark company, 1906), by Philip Pittman and Frank Heywood Hodder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (J. T. Lloyd & co.;, 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity. (Re-printed for W. Sawyer & co., by E. M. Blunt, 1808), by Thomas Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning's lake and river guide (Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & brod., 1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (Home Book Co., 1894), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the great river; embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the gulf of Mexico. (Hubbard brothers, 1891), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years on the Mississippi (Nixon-Jones printing co., 1889), by E Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers...of the north west regions of that vast continent... Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi: and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. (Charlestown [i.e. Charleston, S.C.]: Printed by Samuel Etheridge for West anf Greenleaf, no. 56, Cornhill, Boston, 1802), by Jonathan Carver and John Coakley Lettsom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Brothers, 1904), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (P.F. Collier, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four months in a sneak-box. A boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers (Lee & Shepard;, 1879), by Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Brothers, 1903), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgan's journey down the Mississippi in 1767 ([Washington?, 1905), by George Morgan and James Morris Morgan (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)
• Down the great river; embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the towns, cities, villages and scenery on the banks of the river. (Hubbard, 1889), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The navigator, containing directions for navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi rivers (Cramer & Spear, 1821), by Zadok Cramer (page images at HathiTrust)
• James' river guide : containing descriptions of all the cities, towns, and principal objects of interest on the navigable waters of the Mississippi Valley ... with full tables of distances, and many interesting historical sketches of the country ... (U.P. James, 1858), by U. P. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (Home Book, 1887), by George H. b. 1829 Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters, containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power; the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ... History of all the rail roads in the United States ... One hundred fine engravings, and sixty maps ... (J.T. Lloyd & co., 1856), by James T. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (Home Book, 1887), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the great river : embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi : together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river, as seen during a canoe voyage of over three thousand miles from its head waters to the Gulf of Mexico (Hubbard Brothers, 1892), by Willard Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (James R. Osgood, 1883), by Mark Twain, James S. Tippett, and Zoe C. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. (F. P. Harper, 1895), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Grosset & Dunlap, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & brothers, 1911), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] (Harper & Brothers, 1896), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the great river; embracing an account of the discovery of the true source of the Mississippi, together with views, descriptive and pictorial, of the cities, towns, villages and scenery on the banks of the river ... (Hubbard brothers, 1887), by Willard Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles; containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, catarcts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the northwest regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country. Together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi ... (Key & Simpson, 1796), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. (F.P. Harper, 1895), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western pilot : containing charts of the Ohio river and of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico : accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a gazetteer ... (George Conclin, 1837), by Samuel Cumings and George Conclin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben auf dem Mississippi (Verlag von R. Lutz, 1969), by Mark Twain, Frank Siller, and A. Brachvogel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grande panorama Mississippi ([s.n.], 1852), by John Rowson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi with a geographical description of that river : illustrated by plans and draughts (Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1770), by Philip Pittman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes ... mountains ... of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts ... peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... to the westward of the great river Mississippi : and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements (Key and Simpson, 1796), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• La découverte des sources du Mississippi et de la Rivière Sanglante description du cours entier du Mississippi, qui n'était connu, que partiellement, et d'une grande partie de celui de la Rivière Sanglante, presque entièrement inconnue; ainsi que du cours entier de l'Ohio : aperçus historiques, des endroits les plus intéressans, qu'on y rencontre : observations critico-philosophiques, sur les moeurs, la religion, les superstitions, les costumes, les armes, les chasses, la guerre, la paix, le dénombrement, l'origine, & c. &c. de plusieurs nations indiennes ... preuves évidentes, que le Mississippi est la premiè re rivière du monde (s.n.], 1824), by Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers ... (Printed by Samuel Etheridge, for West and Greenleaf..., 1802), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers ... minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the North-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians... and an appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements (Published by James Key, 1807), by Jonathan Carver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Brothers, 1911), by Mark Twain and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Grosset & Dunlap, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Mark Twain. (P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1899), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi (G. H. Devol ;, 1892), by George H. Devol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper, 1904), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new river guide, or A gazetteer of all the towns on the western waters : containing sketches of the cities, towns, and countries bordering on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their principal tributaries ... compiled from the latest and best authority : with forty-four maps. (George Conclin, 1848), by George Conclin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old times on the Mississippi (Rose-Belford Pub. Co., 1878), by Mark Twain and Rose-Belford Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reize naar Nieuw-Mexico en de binnenlanden van Louisiana, voorgegaan door eenen togt naar de bronnen der Mississippi, gedaan op last van het gouvernement der Vereenigde Staten in de jaren 1805, 1806 en 1807 (C. Timmer, 1812), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western pilot, 1847 (Young & Klein, 1978), by Samuel Cumings (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)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Brothers, 1883), by Mark Twain (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)
• The writings of Mark Twain (Harper, 1869), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exploratory travels through the western territories of North America : comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain : performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States (W.H. Lawrence & Co., 1889), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees, William M. Maguire, and W.H. Lawrence & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The 1820 journal of Stephen Watts Kearny : comprising a narrative account of the Council Bluff-St. Peter's military exploration and a voyage down the Mississippi River to St. Louis ([s.n.], 1908), by Stephen Watts Kearny and V. Mott Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banvard's geographical panorama of the Mississippi River, with the adventures of the artist ([s.n.], 1847), by John Banvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Banvard's geographical panorama of the Mississippi River, with the story of Mike Fink, the last of the boatmen, a tale of river life ([s.n.], 1847), by John Banvard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auf dem Mississippi. (Kreidel und Niedner, 1859), by W. O. von Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tourist's guide to the Mississippi River: giving all the railroad and steamboat routes diverging from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Dubuque, toward St. Paul, and the falls of St. Anthony; also, railroad and steamboat routes from Chicago and Milwaukee to Lake Superior; together with an account of cities and villages, and objects of interest, on the route and in the upper valley of the Mississippi... (American news company, 1866), by John Disturnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years on the Mississippi ; or, Gould's history of river navigation. Containing a history of the introduction of steam as a propelling power on ocean, lakes and rivers. (Columbus, O. : Long's College Book, 1951., 1951), by E. W. Gould (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narrative of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. (UMI Books on Demand, 1888), by Samuel S. Forman and Lyman Copeland Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pike's expeditions (F.P. Harper, 1895), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gould's history of river navigation (Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1889), by E. W. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Bros., 1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Mark Twain (G. Wells, 1970), by Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine, and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory : during the year 1819 : with occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines (A.H. Clark Co., 1905), by Thomas Nuttall and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (Greystone Press, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive pamphlet of Smith's leviathan panorama of the Mississippi River! : painted by John R. Smith, esq., extending from the Falls of St. Anthony to the Gulf of Mexico. ([s.n.], 1848), by John R. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen Westen (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by Albert B. Richter and H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, by George Byron Merrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90, by Samuel S. Forman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans, by W. F. Waugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7., by Zebulon Montgomery Pike, ed. by Elliott Coues (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 2 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7., by Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Elliott Coues (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7., by Zebulon Montgomery Pike, ed. by Elliott Coues (Gutenberg ebook)
• Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi, by George H. Devol (Gutenberg ebook)

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