Let The Lower Lights Be Burning takes its name from an old American hymn. Residents of Spunky Point loved to sing about those "fainting, struggling seamen" and they never doubted it was the Des Moines Rapids that made them that way. This light-hearte...
The journal entries of the dauntless Mr. Peter Paul Sherman lend unique insights to the treacherous world of Reconstruction-era river-boating. This humorous epistolary novel brings history to life as it transports the reader to the time of majestic s...