Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...
...great rocks challenge its course. The river is a trout fisherman's paradise and a boatman's purgatory. In early June, two Germans arrived at its banks, not to fish but to scout the Arkansas for what is widely regarded as the world's longest, roughest riverboat race...
Upsets & Death. The first riverboat race on the Arkansas, in 1949, ran nearly 60 miles, from Salida, down between the quarter-mile-high walls of the awesome Royal Gorge, and out again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...
...Johnny Mack Brown; a theme song called The Marshal's Daughter, renegade Indians, a mysterious masked rider, a cowboy quartet, dancing girls, rustlers on a rampage. Comedian-Producer Ken (Blackouts) Murray is intrepid enough to show up in front of the camera himself at one point as a riverboat entertainer sporting a high hat, checkered suit and gargantuan cigar...
...Cents, by Richard Bissell. Life in the Midwest as seen from a pajama factory; a sturdily original little novel by a writer who began as Mark Twain did, as a riverboat pilot (TIME...