natchez-on-top-of-the-hill

Updated: May 5, 2025

It had a desperate reputation, morally, in the old keel-boating and early steamboating times plenty of drinking, carousing, fisticuffing, and killing there, among the riff-raff of the river, in those days. But Natchez-on-top-of-the-hill is attractive; has always been attractive. Even Mrs.

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.

It had a desperate reputation, morally, in the old keel-boating and early steamboating times plenty of drinking, carousing, fisticuffing, and killing there, among the riff-raff of the river, in those days. But Natchez-on-top-of-the-hill is attractive; has always been attractive. Even Mrs.

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi