Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 359
biggestman on earth, remarked a veteran river-man. 826 THE WALKING-BEAM BOY. Like thousands of others along the Mississippiand Ohio, he remembered that when a child hecould recognize the Champion a mile distantby this unique signal. \fter a while, though, other steamboats oper- ing-beam boy being… … HE WAVED THE STARS AND STRIPES HIGH IN- THE AIR WITH ONLY THE VAST EXPANSE OF SKY FOR BACKGROUND. ating low-pressure engines copied the idea,and there were several walking-beam boys employed on the rivers, and their flags wereremodeled to have some distinctive feature each.It was a perilous…
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