@book{1455,
  keywords = {flatboats, pioneers, orphans},
  author = {Stephen W. Meader},
  title = {Down the Big River},
  abstract = {Follows an orphan boy and his uncle who set out from Bucks County for Missouri. The first five chapters follow the protagonists to Pittsburgh, where they wait 20 days for their flatboat before pushing off down the Ohio River.},
  year = {1924},
  pages = {270 p.},
  publisher = {Harcourt, Brace and Company},
  address = {New York},
  language = {English},
}