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...been a sordid murder, and the victim, a small-time criminal, had taken his last lumps on a shabby barge moored in the Thames. Davidson, a riverman's son and an innocent bystander, happened to be there because his girl Fay lived on the boat. Fay was a big, handsome girl, and when the trial was over, Policeman Lowther courted and married her. Lowther is a decent man, rather long on conscience. He wants to protect his wife, who has never told him what really happened, but he also knows that Davidson has been wronged. The real kick...
...William Hill was Niagara's best-known riverman, a veteran of three rides through the rapids below the falls in a barrel. He was credited with recovering 177 bodies cast up by the river. Before he died in 1942, he told his son William Jr.: "Look after the river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat...
...master and pilot of the steamer Far West was oldtime Missouri Riverman Grant Marsh, contemporary and sometime shipmate of Mississippi Riverman Mark Twain. Author Joseph Mills Hanson, now 70, knew Marsh in his latter years, talked to him at length about his adventures, wrote The Conquest of the Missouri as a Marsh biography. But in effect it is a history of Missouri steam-boating-notably of the wood-burning sternwheelers that hauled passengers and freight along the empty distances of that "rainwater creek," the Upper Missouri, in the 1860s...
...falls to spend the night. A stiff breeze that had been blowing upstream fell away. In the morning, rivermen found the icy gorge below the falls strewn with dead swans. Some 50 survivors sat huddled on the floes. Despite restraining efforts by officials of the Queen Victoria Park Commission, Riverman William ("Red") Hill, famed survivor of two trips through Niagara's rapids in a barrel (TIME, July 13), picked his way out on thence, frightened the foolish swans into taking wing, flying to safety...