Life on the Ohio.
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TextSeries: Ohio River Valley seriesPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (202 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813148748
- 081314874X
- Coomer, James, 1928- -- Anecdotes
- Coomer, James, 1928-
- Ohio River -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
- Ohio River -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
- Ohio River -- Biography -- Anecdotes
- River steamers -- Ohio River -- Anecdotes
- River life -- Ohio River -- Anecdotes
- Ohio (Rivière) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Anecdotes
- Ohio (Rivière) -- Descriptions et voyages -- Anecdotes
- Ohio (Rivière) -- Biographies -- Anecdotes
- Bateaux à vapeur fluviaux -- Ohio (Rivière) -- Anecdotes
- Vie fluviale -- Ohio (Rivière) -- Anecdotes
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Manners and customs
- River life
- River steamers
- Travel
- Ohio River
- 977/.033 21
- F520
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Foreword; Preface: The Ohio and Me; Harbor Work, 1948-1955; I Begin; Hands On; Solo; Roots; The Wrong Stuff; Ever Get That Run-Down Feeling?; A Sticky Affair; Last of the Muskrateers; Daddy Cool and the Kid; Biff! Bam! Pow!; Moving On; Towboating, 1955-1980; A First Night; Alphonse and Gaston; Coffee, the Real Lubricant; Pride Goeth Before a Bellyache; Little Cat Feet?; Ninety-five Percent Boredom, Five Percent Pure Terror; That's Showbiz, Jack; Night Lights; Burial at Sea; Thirty On, Thirty Off; Ghosts on the River.
Who Could Ask for More?Unscrambled Yegg; Christmas on the River; Hang It Up, Pappy; Hoist by My Own Hippie; But Why, Man?; Educating Jerry; Jerry Locks Out; The Luck of the Draw; Days; Time Out, 1967; Happy Landings?; In the End Is the Beginning; A Crusoe Adventure; Manny's Place; A Companion Arrives; Last Lapse; New Orleans Harbor, 1973-1974; Vulcan, a Little Tug That Could and Did; Bab-EI on the Old Miss; Old China Hand-Out; Ships That Pass in the Night; The Odd Couple; Drown and Out in New Orleans; Epilogue; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.
When young James Coomer was offered a job as deckhand on the tugboat Pat Murphy at a dollar an hour, he took his first smell of diesel fuel and knew he was hooked. Life on the Ohio puts the reader in the pilot's seat as Coomer wrestles with runaway barges, navigates through ice and fog, pacifies angry crew members, and contends with the loneliness of working a thirty-day stretch. A modern counterpart to Twain's account of life as a steamboat pilot, Life on the Ohio depicts the working river as it is today with its immense towboats, gigantic locks and dams, and millions of tons of cargo. Coome.
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