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Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse Paperback - 1994
by Michael R. Allen
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In 1956, millions of American children met the keelboatman Mike Fink in the Walt Disney television series and movie Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.
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- Title Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
- Author Michael R. Allen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Thus
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge
- Date 1994-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780807119075 / 0807119075
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.24 x 0.7 in (23.22 x 15.85 x 1.78 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Ohio
- Library of Congress subjects Ohio River - Social life and customs, River life - Mississippi River - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90005860
- Dewey Decimal Code 977.02
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Paperback / softback. New. <i>Western Rivermen</i>, the first documented sociocultural history of its subject, is a fascinating book. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied non-steam vessels, flatboats, keelboats, and rafts, on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763-1861.<br /><br />Allen first considers the mythical ""half horse, half alligator"" boatmen who were an integral part of the folklore of the time. Americans of the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War period perceived the rivermen as hard-drinking, straight-shooting adventurers on the frontier. Their notions were reinforced by romanticized portrayals of the boatmen in songs, paintings, newspaper humor, and literature. Allen contends that these mythical depictions of the boatmen were a reflection of the yearnings of an industrializing people for what they thought to be a simpler time.<br /><br />Allen demonstrates, however, that the actual lives of…
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