TY - SER
KW - flatboats
KW - pioneers
KW - orphans
AU - Stephen W. Meader
AB - 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.
C1 - 1800s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Monongahela River; Ohio River
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Western; Road
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - 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.
PB - Harcourt, Brace and Company
PP - New York
PY - 1924
RN - Stephen Meader (1892-1977), born a Quaker, wrote more than 40 books for children.
EP - 270 p.
TI - Down the Big River
ER -