Wild River, Wooden Boats is the fascinating true story of steamboating on the Missouri River. Not the river we Know today, but a wild river as recalled by the crewmen and passengers who traveled it in the nineteenth century and recorded their stories in memoirs, diary and journal entries. The stories contain long-forgotten accounts of steamboat navigation and operations, vivid descriptions of the river, the crewmen and passengers and tales of disaster and unexpected peril.In every story we catch a glimpse of our shared human traits played out in different times and circumstances. It is for our benefit as well as their own that those pioneers faced the challenge of their frontier riven Wild River, Wooden Boats is their story -- and ours.
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