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Resources

• Allen, Michael. Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse. Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
• Arneson, Eric. Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
• Baldwin, Leland D. The Keelboat Age on Western Waters. Pittsburgh, 1941.
• Blair, Walter., and Franklin J. Meine. Mike Fink, King of Mississippi Keelboatmen. New York. 1933.
• Clay, Floyd M. History of Navigation on the Lower Mississippi. Institute for Water Resources, 1983.
• Corthell, Elmer L. A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River. New York: Wiley, 1880.
• Curry, Jane. The River's in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
• Jackson, Joy J. Where the River Runs Deep: The Story of a Mississippi River Pilot. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.
• Lowrey, Walter M. "Navigational Problems at the Mouth of the Mississippi River, 1698-1880." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1956.
• Monette, John W. "The Progress of Navigation and Commerce on the Waters of the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes, A.D. 1700-1846," Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society 7 (1903): 479-523.