High Water

Duke Snyder found his first job on ' a dirty old cinder-throwing stern-wheeler' when he was sixteen years old with just sixty-five cents left in his pocket and nothing else to do. Ten years later he’s still on the river aboard an old diesel towboat hauling eight barges of coal toward the Chain of Rocks above St. Louis with all hands on deck facing the ominous rise of high water.
An expert at finding the details that make a story exceptional, Bissell reminds us how rich and abundant, vibrant...