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Branch, Edgar Marquess. "A New Clemens Footprint: Soleather Steps Forward." American Literature (Dec., 1982): 497-510.

Branch, Edgar Marquess. "Bixby vs. Carroll: New Light on Sam Clemens's Early River Career." Mark Twain Journal (Fall, 1992): 2-22.

Branch, Edgar Marquess. Men Call Me Lucky. Miami University, 1985.

Branch, Edgar Marquess. "Sam Clemens, Steersman on the John H. Dickey." American Literary Realism (Autumn, 1982): 195-208.

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Loges, Max. "Horace Ezra Bixby: The Life and Times of a Frontier River Pilot." Mark Twain Journal (Spring 1998).

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Marleau, Michael. " 'The Crash of Timbers Continued--The Deck Swayed under Me'--Samuel L. Clemens, Eyewitness to the Race and Collision between the Pennsylvania and Vicksburg." Mark Twain Journal (Spring 1990).

Mattson, J. Stanley. "Twain's Last Months on the Mississippi." Missouri Historical Review (Summer 1968).

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1, 1853-1866. Edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael Frank, and Kenneth M. Sanderson. University of California Press, 1988.

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Way, Frederick, Jr. Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994 :
Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America. Ohio University Press, 1995.

Wheeler, Mary. Steamboatin' Days - Folks Songs of the River Packet Era. Louisiana State University Press, 1944.

Further Recommendations

LIFE ON THE
MISSISSIPPI
from amazon.com

Way's Packet Directory

Steamboats on the
Western Rivers

The Mississippi Steam Boat Era in Historic Photographs

Recommended juvenile reader
Steeeeamboat A-Comin'!

The Western River Steamboat

Audio CD - Alan Lomax's
Deep River of Song

Currents of Change: Art and Life Along the Mississippi, 1850-1861

See the related
Currents of Change
Museum Exhibition