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RI TO THE SEA by

RI TO THE SEA

By

Pub Date: April 15th, 1942
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

and river pioneering, with plenty of adventure, in a story of the first steamboat down the Mississippi, and of how young Davie's selfish ambition turns a into a more cooperative and attitude. Davie heads went from his schooling in Philadelphia, sharp trading of his mechanical talents, but Pittsburgh , untill Roosevelt hires him for the building of the New Orleans. of her possibilities among the keelboat men, who see their days numbered -- but their attempts to wreck her fall and she starts on her hazardous, unchartered , and battles , she makes port. Good adventure with its due of romance.