Abstract
Mark Twain nominated steamboat pilot the only unfettered and entirely independent being that lived in earth. His movements were entirely free; he consulted no one.... Indeed law of United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions from anyone.' This legally sanctioned independence underwrites Twain's romance of nature of which, I think, has been too narrowly conceived. The aesthetic values of Twain's romance are also clearly economic and professional, and as Henry Nash Smith has observed, Twain's discussion of piloting bears ... directly on [his] thinking about problem of values. Yet critical discussion of the art of piloting, in James Cox's phrase, has neglected economics of piloting's aesthetic values.2 These economics warrant exami-
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