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Title: Up the River
or, Yachting on the Mississippi

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: March 7, 2008 [EBook #24775]

Language: English

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THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES

UP THE RIVER

OR

YACHTING ON THE MISSISSIPPI

BY

OLIVER OPTIC

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD" "THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES" "THE
WOODVILLE SERIES" "THE STARRY FLAG SERIES" "THE BOAT CLUB
STORIES" "THE LAKE SHORE SERIES" "THE UPWARD AND
ONWARD SERIES" "THE YACHT CLUB SERIES"
"THE RIVERDALE STORIES" ETC.

_WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS_

BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM
1882

COPYRIGHT,
1881,
BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS.

BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
NO. 4 PEARL STREET.

TO MY YOUNG FRIEND

MINNIE ETHEL ADAMS,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES.

GOING WEST; OR, THE PERILS OF A POOR BOY.

OUT WEST; OR, ROUGHING IT ON THE GREAT LAKES.

LAKE BREEZES; OR, THE CRUISE OF THE SYLVANIA.

GOING SOUTH; OR, YACHTING ON THE ATLANTIC COAST.

DOWN SOUTH; OR, YACHT ADVENTURES IN FLORIDA.

UP THE RIVER; OR, YACHTING ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

LEE AND SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

PREFACE.

UP THE RIVER is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The
events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of
Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close
with the return of the hero, by a route not often taken by tourists, to
his home in Michigan. His voyaging on the ocean, the Great Lakes, and
the Father of Waters, is finished for the present; but the writer
believes that his principal character has grown wiser and better since
he was first introduced to the reader. He has made mistakes of