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Title: Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, from Pittsburg and the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to the Spanish Frontier; in a Series of Letters to the Rev. James Flint, of Salem, Massachusetts
Creator: Flint, Timothy
Date: 1826
Genre: books, autobiographies, letters (correspondence), poetry
Category: Frontier Settlement, Native American Relations, African-Americans, Prairie, Lincoln, Twain, 1818--1860, 1673--1818, 1835--1910
Permission: Newberry Library

Title: Thirty Years a Slave, From Bondage to Freedom, The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter, Autobiography of Louis Hughes
Creator: Hughes, Louis
Date: 1897
Genre: books, autobiographies
Category: Race and Ethnicity, Twain, 1835--1910
Permission: Illinois State University

Title: Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors: History of a Disaster Where Over One Thousand Five Hundred Human Beings Were Lost, Most of Them Being Exchanged Prisoners of War on Their Way Home After Privation and Suffering from One to Twenty-Three Months in Cahara and Andersonville Prisons
Creator: Berry, Rev. Chester D
Date: 1892
Genre: books, autobiographies
Category: Economic Development, Transportation, Labor, Twain, 1835--1910
Permission: Tulane University

Title: Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, During Thirty-five Years' Residence in New Orleans
Creator: Clapp, Theodore
Date: 1857
Genre: books, autobiographies
Category: Twain, Religion and Culture, Settlement and Immigration, 1835--1910

Title: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself, with an Introduction by Lucius C. Matlack
Creator: Bibb, Henry, Matlack, Lucius C., Baldwin, J. D., Barnum, William, Birney, William, Brown, Cullen, Gatewood, William H., Gatewood, Silas, Hallock, H, Holmes, Silas M., Lane, Daniel S., Porter, L., Porter, W., Smith, J. W., Stewart, Charles H., Wilson, Hiram, Wilson, Martin
Date: 1849
Genre: books, autobiographies, letters (correspondence), reports
Category: African-Americans, Native American Relations, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Culture, Women and Gender, Lincoln, Twain, 1818--1860, 1835--1910
Permission: Northern Illinois University

Title: Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi; A Cabin Boy in 1839; Could Steal Cards and Cheat the Boys at Eleven; Stock a Deck at Fourteen; Bested Soldiers on the Rio Grande During the Mexican War; Won Hundreds of Thousands from Paymasters, Cotton Buyers, Defaulters, and Thieves; Fought More Rough-and-Tumble Fights than Any Man in America, and was the Most Daring Gambler in the World
Creator: Devol, George H
Date: 1892
Genre: books, memoirs, autobiographies
Category: Religion and Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Twain, 1835--1910
Permission: Northern Illinois University

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