TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryant,Betty
TI  - Here comes the showboat!
T2  - Ohio River Valley series
SN  - 9780813149967
AV  - PN2293.S4 B79 1994
U1  - 792/.022 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Bryant family.
KW  - Billy Bryant's Showboat
KW  - fast
KW  - Showboats
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - River life
KW  - Ohio River
KW  - Théâtres flottants
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Vie fluviale
KW  - Ohio (Rivière)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Cast, Bred on the Waters; Home Sweet Showboat; Lady Violet; The Four Bryants; The Play! The Play!; The Actors Have Arrived; Willie; Dead Men Tell No Tales; Up the Monongahela; Perennial Pals; Screeching Pipe of Pan; Down by the O-HI-O; Put Them All Together, They Spell Huckster -- Then There Was Dad; Phone It In; Vic Faust; That Old-Time Religion; The Season Ends; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Right Place at the Right Time; Cincinnati; A Lady and a Queen; Lure of City Lights; Olio; Rainin' and Risin'; Where Have All the Showboats Gone?Showboat Chronology; For Further Information; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - ""I was born at the tail end of a unique and delightful era and raised on one of the last showboats to struggle for survival against the devastating crunch of progress ... Our showboat's express purpose was carrying entertainment to hundreds of thousands of river-bottom farmers along our water-bordered frontier.""--The bookBetty Bryant was a river rat. The Floating Theater was her home, and the river was her back yard. While other children were learning to walk, she was learning to swim. She knew how to set a trotline, gig a frog, catch a crawdad, and strip the mud vein out of a carp by
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