The Man at the Wheel (Classic Reprint)
Carter, John Henton![The Man at the Wheel (Classic Reprint)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/186/18623144/CHSBZCOP0318623144.jpg)
Excerpt from The Man at the Wheel
"In story, and in common parlance, the pioneer boatmen of the Mississippi occupied somewhat the position of the Bedouin Arabs of the East - though with a home three thousand miles long, and with a life which compelled them to combine the accomplishments of the sailor, the whaler, the backwoodsman and the Yankee, they were vastly superior to those mere mounted loafers of the desert. Probably no avocation in th...