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A RAFT PILOT'S LOG 



Pete Kirns: steamboat, 113 



Peters, Samuel: 188 



Pettibone, A. W: 35 



Phil Schaeckel: steamboat, 77 



Phil Sheridan: steamboat, 159 



Philumalee, David: 26, 36 



Pilot: bow-boat, 73 ; sold, 74; 176, 244 



Pilot-contractor: position explained, 

 26 



Pilots: duties, 17; engaged, 36; 37; 

 income, 73; rivalry, 119; license 

 authorizes, 121; list of raft, 1840- 

 1913, 265-273; see also Rapids' 

 pilots 



Pittam [William] : 24 



Pittsburgh: steamboat, 78 



Polleys, W. H: 35 



Portage (Wis.) : 35 



Porter and Moon: see Northv-'estern 

 Lumber Company 



Prairie du Chien (Wis.) : 163, 224 



Prescott: bow-boat, 73; 118; dis- 

 mantled, 189 



Prescott (Wis.): 64; packet service, 

 77; wing dams, 89; Capt. Winans 

 last raft to, 221 



Prices and values: 36, 69, 75, 129, 

 130; cut by Capt. Winans, 222 



Princeton (la.): 26, 36; author 

 teacher in, 55 



Purchase: steamboat, 182 



Queens Bluff: wood yard, 68; low 



water, 89 

 Quickstep: steamboat, sold, 182 

 Quincy (III.) : destination of rafts, 

 36; Clark statue, 166; packet ser- 

 vice, 179 



Racing: 108, 113-114 



Rafts: speed of floating, 28; de- 

 scribed, 29-30, 34, 51 ; first taken 

 to Saint Louis, 35; crews on, 38; 

 size, 53; speed down stream, 69; 

 earnings, 75-76; size of lumber 

 and log, 118; usual speed, 119; 

 storage, 139; first boat built to 

 tow, 195-201; largest, 203-204; 



double-deckers, 203; last, 204-207; 

 see also Pilots, Rapids Pilots, En- 

 gineers, Mates 



Raft-boats: crew, 15; what became 

 of, 171-189; first real raft-boat, 

 199-201; freak, 209-210; pilots, 

 265-273; Rapids pilots, 275-278; 

 Engineers, 279-285 ; mates, 287-288 ; 

 list of and their owners, 293-308 



Rafting: 17; author's information, 

 19; records lost, 21; supplies, 70; 

 last of, 204, 265 ; biographical 

 sketches of prominent men, 211- 

 254; see also Pilots, Raft Pilots, 

 Engineers, Mates 



Railroads: 25; none on Wisconsin 

 side, 48; under water, 104; 178 



Rambo, J. W: rapids pilot, 73; 130, 

 132 



Rand, E. D: 59 



Randall, Lish: 68 



Rapids pilots: special, 73; fee, 74; 

 list of, 275-278 ; see also Pilots 



Ravenna: steamboat, raised, 180 



R. D. Kendall: bow-boat, 172, 189 



Read's Landing (Minn.) : 34, 54; 

 double-tripping, 70; packet service, 

 77; 112, 186; first steamboat to 

 tow rafts, 191 ; 219, 221 



Red Wing: steamboat, 77, 156; sold, 

 181 



Reindeer: steamboat, sold, 178 



Rexdale, Robert: When the Missis- 

 sippi luas the Great Highway, 153, 

 168-170 



Reynolds, Joseph: 215 



Rice, Capt. Dan: 143, 144 



Richtmann, Capt. J, J: 175 



Richtman's wood yard: 68 



Riots: see Dubuque 



River anecdotes: 30-31, 38-39, 45, 46, 

 86, 125, 145-148, 196 



R. J. Wheeler: steamboat, 179, 229 



Robert, Louis: trading post, 212 



Robert Dodds: excursion barge, 143; 

 145, 146, 172, 244, 246 



Robert Harris: steamboat, 77 



Robert Semple: steamboat, 229 



