This novel features a steamer race between the Boreas and the Amaranth, which explodes with great loss of life.
This novel features a steamer race between the Boreas and the Amaranth, which explodes with great loss of life. It details the struggles of the Hawkins family as the country grows westward, and contains such colorful characters as the crooked politician Senator Dilworthy and confidence man Colonel Sellers as well as Ruth Bolton, a young Quaker who attends medical school. Written in respond to a "dinner party challenge," and continued in the sequel "The American Claimant," FTP, identify this collaboration between Charles Warner and Mark Twain which lends its name to a period of American history.
This novel features a steamer race between the Boreas and the Amaranth, which explodes with great loss of life.
The {Gilded Age}