FREELife on the Mississippi, Part 2.
"Life on the Mississippi, Part 2." by Mark Twain is a memoir and travel book published in 1883. This work combines Twain's recollections of his youth as a steamboat pilot apprentice on the Mississippi River before the Civil War with his observations from a return journey years later. He chronicles his training under experienced pilot Horace Bixby, the art of navigating the ever-changing river, and contrasts the romantic steamboat era with a modernizing America transformed by railroads and urban growth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Automated conservative edition review 2026-10-20T13:05:41.722Z (historical-original-en-v2), Philippines scope. English historical author Twain, Mark, died 1910; original-language author allowlist, matching sole EPUB/catalog creator, no credited contributors, no extra artwork, no flagged editorial/translation/copyright cues in isolated text. US public-domain source label and retained Gutenberg license; EPUB CRC passed. This is rule-based screening, not a worldwide rights opinion or a claim of manual review. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8472; Philippine term reference https://www.ipophil.gov.ph/copyright/. EPUB SHA256 69ef87ebcdcfac4cfd1f120055603757e7f057b4ffc88ace7908752f40d798d1; RDF SHA256 9b724e8479e96213b179f4228cf48a2ec7895780341f996a3f279b3f8870ee48.
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