The Charles Rodgers, Fort Dodge Steamboat by Irving Black………….$6.00

The often humorous history of an 1859 pioneer steamboat venture that gave Fort Dodge visions of becoming a great river port. The book contains some rollicking tales of steamboat races, equipment failures, incompetent crewmembers, narrow escapes from wharfmasters, and run-ins with ferry operators, in an effort to build a steamboat on a shoestring budget and take it where none had gone before. Paperback - 62 pages