The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million
dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.
- Life on the Mississippi
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned
fool, they'll never find out.
- Life on the Mississippi
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The
Great Republic steamboat circa 1870 anchored at the St. Louis levee.
From a stereocard in the Dave Thomson collection.
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