An account of Twain's experiences as an apprentice riverboat pilot in the days of the great Mississippi steamboats.

The Love For the Mississippi River“There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. You have to know it just like A B C.' That was a dismal ...

When Mark Twain was seventeen he went back to the home of his boyhood resolved to become a pilot on the Mississippi. How he learnt the river he has told us in 'Life on the ...