TY - SER
KW - keelboats
KW - pioneers
KW - immigrants
KW - orphans
KW - steamboats
AU - Jerry Wolfert
AB - The novel begins on Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny River during the keelboat age. Oliver, a 12-year-old orphan, is “a pygmy among giants” and works the keelboat <em>Blackthorne</em> just above Pittsburgh.  When the first steamboat enters the Allegheny River, boatmen lose their jobs and Oliver heads north to Upstate New York for the building of the Erie Canal.
C1 - 1815-20
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Armstrong County; Erie County; Lake Erie; Westmoreland County
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Adventure
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - The novel begins on Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny River during the keelboat age. Oliver, a 12-year-old orphan, is “a pygmy among giants” and works the keelboat <em>Blackthorne</em> just above Pittsburgh.  When the first steamboat enters the Allegheny River, boatmen lose their jobs and Oliver heads north to Upstate New York for the building of the Erie Canal.
PB - The John Day Company
PP - New York
PY - 1960
RN - Jerry Wolfert (1917-1966) was chief copy editor in New York City for <em>Business Week</em>.
EP - 253 p.
TI - Brother of the Wind: A Story of the Niagara Frontier
ER -