Steamboat Seasons and Backwater Battles: A Riverboat Pilot On The Western Rivers In The Civil War; A Historical Novel - Paperback

by Kendall D. Gott (Author)

This is the story of a young man with the ambition to crawl his way up in Victorian society by leaving the farm and signing onto a steamboat. He is quickly swept up in the war that divides and threatens his goals. When the boat is acquired for conversion to a "tinclad" gunboat, he and other men find themselves in the thick of the fighting.