The Wet-Grass Steamboat!
The year is 1867, and former Union steamboatman Bill MacKay has traveled south from Ironton, Ohio in search of adventure and a place to start his own steamboat company. While piloting a packet steamer on the Red and Mississippi rivers of Louisiana, he befriends Rafe Whittaker, a former Confederate blockade runner. The men realize that they share a common quest for peace and the freedom to make of their lives what they possibly can.

Together the two journey to Rafe's family homestead on the wild Peace River frontier of southwest Florida, and set about building a steamboat of such shallow draft that locals joke about it being able to run not just in shallow water, but on wet grass.

Can the two friends find success, happiness, and perhaps a little romance in pioneer Florida? Mysterious forces, and equally mysterious gunmen seem bent on sinking not only their boat, the Lady Sally, but their business as well. Is the Civil War truly over, or has it become a guerrilla war along the banks of the Peace River?
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The Wet-Grass Steamboat!
The year is 1867, and former Union steamboatman Bill MacKay has traveled south from Ironton, Ohio in search of adventure and a place to start his own steamboat company. While piloting a packet steamer on the Red and Mississippi rivers of Louisiana, he befriends Rafe Whittaker, a former Confederate blockade runner. The men realize that they share a common quest for peace and the freedom to make of their lives what they possibly can.

Together the two journey to Rafe's family homestead on the wild Peace River frontier of southwest Florida, and set about building a steamboat of such shallow draft that locals joke about it being able to run not just in shallow water, but on wet grass.

Can the two friends find success, happiness, and perhaps a little romance in pioneer Florida? Mysterious forces, and equally mysterious gunmen seem bent on sinking not only their boat, the Lady Sally, but their business as well. Is the Civil War truly over, or has it become a guerrilla war along the banks of the Peace River?
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The Wet-Grass Steamboat!

The Wet-Grass Steamboat!

by Kenneth Hulme
The Wet-Grass Steamboat!

The Wet-Grass Steamboat!

by Kenneth Hulme

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Overview

The year is 1867, and former Union steamboatman Bill MacKay has traveled south from Ironton, Ohio in search of adventure and a place to start his own steamboat company. While piloting a packet steamer on the Red and Mississippi rivers of Louisiana, he befriends Rafe Whittaker, a former Confederate blockade runner. The men realize that they share a common quest for peace and the freedom to make of their lives what they possibly can.

Together the two journey to Rafe's family homestead on the wild Peace River frontier of southwest Florida, and set about building a steamboat of such shallow draft that locals joke about it being able to run not just in shallow water, but on wet grass.

Can the two friends find success, happiness, and perhaps a little romance in pioneer Florida? Mysterious forces, and equally mysterious gunmen seem bent on sinking not only their boat, the Lady Sally, but their business as well. Is the Civil War truly over, or has it become a guerrilla war along the banks of the Peace River?

Product Details

BN ID: 2940150400887
Publisher: Osprey Press
Publication date: 09/17/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 394 KB

About the Author

Ken Hulme spent thirty plus years as a Science and Technical writer before retiring to live aboard a sailboat in southwest Florida. A long-time history buff, and steamboat aficionado, he is also a gourmet Personal Chef, and has published a number of small books on both subjects, as well as the first textbook on desktop publishing and hundreds of non-fiction magazine articles. This is his first completed work of fiction.
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