The bad men from Black River -- Here comes the steamboat -- The pine-tree eldorado -- The lumberjack -- Captain Hanks comes in -- So log was king -- Days of the great migration -- Through fire, fog, and cyclone -- The slush cook finds a picture -- Good business on the Lamartine -- After Tom Doughty went smash -- Raftsman Jim at his worst -- Other phases of raftsman Jim -- Captain Pluck takes charge -- The pilot and his ways -- When the Julia hit the bridge -- The steering-wheel guild -- The Minnietta in a storm -- Mr. Hill, meet Captain Pluck -- The end from the beginning -- Appendices: -- A. Upper Mississippi River distances -- B.A raftsman's oratory -- C. The river Bard.
Illustrations: -- After a smash -- St. Paul's levee in the old days -- Packet "Minneapolis" in 1869 at landing in Minneapolis where Washington Avenue bridge is now -- The falls of St. Anthony -- A log jam in the Mississippi above the falls of St. Anthony -- St. Louis 'n the good old steamboat days -- Maiden-rock -- Lumber raft about 1866 -- Wa-ba-sha Prairie -- Sugar Loaf Mountain, Winona, Minnesota -- Birch throwing the Portmanteau over-board -- Murderers attacking Colonel Davenport -- The riot on the Dubuque -- Wooding-up at night -- Thomas Doughty -- The Mississippi -- The raft and the raftboat -- Section of the river above Trempealeau -- Raft boats in a race -- The raft boat "North Star" -- The boom times of rafting -- Governor Sam Van Sant, 1964, Co. A 9th 111 Cavalry -- Samuel B. Van Sant, when he was nominated for governor -- The great double raft -- Part of Coon Slough.
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