A Young Man’s Life on the Mississippi
Title: A Young Man’s Life on the Mississippi
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 872 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Young Man’s Life on the Mississippi
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 872 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 872 total…reader's sense, with its religiousness, its lawlessness, its droll social distinctions, its civilization qualified by its slave-holding, and its traditions of the wilder West which has passed away. The picture will be instructive to those who have fancied the whole Southwest a sort of vast Pike County, and have not conceived of a sober and serious and orderly contrast to the sort of life that has come to represent the Mississippi in literature (Clemens, Samuel).