TY - SER KW - houseboats KW - trappers KW - teenagers AU - Harry Castlemon AB - George McCord and Josh Shaw are teens from a poor Allegheny Valley town who build a houseboat, travel to the South, and become trappers to earn money for college. C1 - 1890s C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River C4 - Young Adult; Adventure; Travel CY - Philadelphia LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Harry Castlemon is a pseudonym of Charles Austin Fosdick (1842-1915). N2 - George McCord and Josh Shaw are teens from a poor Allegheny Valley town who build a houseboat, travel to the South, and become trappers to earn money for college. PB - Henry T. Coates PP - Philadelphia PY - 1895 RN - Charles Austin Fosdick (1842-1915), born in Randolph, New York, was an American Civil War veteran and prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels. EP - 409 p. TI - The House-Boat Boys ER -