... Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...versity is an equal opportunity University. Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BODY OF THE NATION BU... ... the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wisconsin. Marquette had solemnly contracted, on the feast of the Immacul... ...Joliet and Marquette and their five subordinates reached the junction of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi. Mr. Parkman says: ‘Before them a wide and... ...remembering that he was a steamboatman; and he used all sorts of steam boat technicalities in his talk, as if he were so used to them that he forgot ... ... so while he was still a little boy he was sent to “one of them old, ancient colleges”—he couldn’t remember which; and by and by his father died and h... ..., and held on the cabin under Plum Point till I raised the reef—quarter less twain— then straightened up for the middle bar till I got well abreast th... ...ms, thirteen and a half feet. ‘Mark three’ is three fathoms. *”Partner” is a technical term for “the other pilot.” Life on the Mississippi Mark T w... ...said that Cape Girardeau was the Athens of Missouri, and contained sev eral colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious ...