RIVER MAN: Master of the Mississippi: Henry Shreve & the Conquest of the Mississippi

Biography of the man who was foremost in creating the era of Mississippi steamboating, an energetic, relentlessly persistent, ambitious water pioneer. Another source aspect of regional-background import, adequately and authentically surveyed and portrayed -- but not the sort of book that will catch the imagination of the inland waterway enthusiast. His life was full of interest, -- early years of fur trading, sailing the Ohio in a keelboat; then with the coming of steam, a mounting ambition to conquer the Mississippi and his achievement of his goal, against odds; closing years with farming and railroading occupying his attention. Not particularly compelling in handling.