Project Gutenberg 2014-02-15 Public domain in the USA. 81 Eggleston, George Cary 1839 1911 The Last of the Flatboats A Story of the Mississippi and Its Interesting Family of Rivers Produced by David Edwards, Fred Salzer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Last of the Flatboats" by George Cary Eggleston is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story begins in a vibrant small town along the Ohio River, Vevay, Indiana, and follows a group of resourceful boys led by young Phil Lowry, as they embark on an adventurous journey down the Mississippi River on a self-built flatboat. Their adventure is both a quest for profit and a tale of camaraderie, focusing on themes of friendship, tenacity, and the spirit of adventure in the face of challenges. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to the spirited and intelligent lowry brothers, Ed and Phil, along with their friends, who are engaged in a salvage operation recovering pig-iron from a wrecked barge. Phil's persistence leads them to discover valuable artifacts underwater. As they celebrate their success, the boys hatch a plan to build a flatboat and take it down to New Orleans for profit. They are joined by Jim Hughes, a mysterious figure who expresses an eagerness to serve as a pilot. Tension arises as they grapple with Hughes's questionable behavior and intentions, setting the stage for their journey filled with excitement, unexpected challenges, and the vibrant environment of the Mississippi River. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44922/44922-h/images/cover.jpg en Mississippi River -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature 488472 488481 2024-09-18T19:12:15.549414 2023-09-19T14:25:03.915587 text/html text/html 484425 2014-02-15T08:44:22 text/html; charset=utf-8 586665 2014-02-15T08:44:24 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 648282 2024-09-18T19:12:24.133404 application/epub+zip 645742 2024-09-18T19:12:16.848410 application/epub+zip 299810 2024-09-18T19:12:16.175455 application/epub+zip 759547 2024-09-18T19:12:29.266366 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 701035 2024-09-18T19:12:23.304373 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356918 2022-09-20T13:51:00.288796 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 419659 2024-09-18T19:12:14.632440 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 429574 2014-02-15T08:44:16 text/plain; charset=utf-8 159399 2014-02-15T08:44:24 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 419468 2014-02-15T08:44:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 158114 2014-02-15T08:44:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 419462 2014-02-15T08:44:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 158080 2014-02-15T08:44:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21481 2024-09-18T19:12:29.417338 application/rdf+xml 18353 2024-09-18T19:12:16.284400 image/jpeg 3029 2024-09-18T19:12:16.229403 image/jpeg 633567 2024-09-18T19:12:15.609402 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia