Mike Finks

"... The little kec! boats, in tire mcan time, are dashing about in high spirits. Unless a rain, aml that a pretty thorough one, visit us soon, these little democratic Mike Finks will monopolize tmo entire navigation of the ri ica n. The garden of the Hermitage, outside thc barriere Montmartre, are the delight of the apprentices and milliners of thc quarter. ..."

"... George Mc Nair who thought he could more easily bury himself in the wilderness among the trappers and boatmen than any other way The expedition which was to he Mike Finks last had its origin in St Loui Two fur dealers in that town named Henry and Ashley had engaged Mike and his crew to go up the Missouri in the ..."

"... been so wronged because confounded with the vicious braggarts and cutthroat of n l iler period,” the river whom lie well describes as the boasting, swearing, fighting, drinking, gouging Mike Finks.” lle gives a full and clear account of the adventures, and does full justice to the characters, of Boone, Knox, Harrod, Geo. Rogers Clark, James Rny, and Logan, the true ..."

"... and easy? habit of spitting that delicious saliva, tobacco juice, into other people?s faces, and then the squeeving and the want of courtesy among the ??free-born gals,? and the Mike Finks of the Mississippi, especially at meals, was shockingly disgusting, and she is not backward in bestowing proper censure. She is right, for who is he that has travelled, even on ..."