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A mud clerk was a helper or all-around worker aboard a steamboat during the period before and after the American Civil War, on rivers west of the Appalachian mountains, particularly aboard steamboats on the Mississippi River. [1] [2] According to Mark Twain in his autobiography, "Mud clerks received no salary, but they were in the line of ...
In 1880, young Scrooge McDuck has travelled to America to seek his fortune. Making his way to New Orleans, he looks up his Uncle Angus "Pothole" McDuck, and helps him as a deckhand on his steamboat alongside the inventor and engineer Ratchet Gearloose, racing to be first to a site along the Mississippi River to salvage a shipment of gold from a ship that sank 30 years earlier while ...
Ingram Barge Company M/V PAT C at Chalmette, Louisiana.. The Ingram Barge Company is a barge company based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.. According to the company website, Ingram operates nearly 4,000 barges with a fleet of over 80 linehaul vessels and over 30 tug boats.
The Mississippi River is a unique creature. It’s an inland sea perpetually on the move. It drains a continent. It gathers other great rivers into its fold and flows forever on. It has countless ...
Joseph Marie LaBarge [a] (October 1, 1815 – April 3, 1899) was an American steamboat captain, most notably of the steamboats Yellowstone, and Emilie, [b] that saw service on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, bringing fur traders, miners, goods and supplies up and down these rivers to their destinations.
Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin. Contact her at (920) 996-7266 or mheim@gannett.com .