num_pages: 274
description: In the spring of 1835, Tom Medcalf steals $50.00 from his mother and sets out on a life of adventure. Signing on as a pole pusher aboard the keelboat QUEENIE. he finds himself bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with a load of cargo for the cavalry stationed there.At Leavenworth, he meets 19 year old Katie, and after a stormy romance, the two are married and soon have twin daughters. Soon he is back on the Mississippi Rive bound for New Orleans. BEND IN THE RIVER is a well wrought tale of life in pre-Civil War America, when there were still endless untamed frontiers to be explored.
language: English
title: Bend in the River
titlecomplete: Bend in the River
publisher: Third Millennium Pubns