On 16 February 1857 Clemens took passage for New Orleans on the packet Paul Jones. .... During daylight watches he began “doing a lot of steering” for Horace E. Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones, whose sore foot made standing at the wheel painful.
https://twainsgeography.com/epoch/sam-clemens-mississippi
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