Shantyboats and Roustabouts

Winner of the James V. Swift Medal for Excellence in Maritime Literature Winner of the Missouri History Book Award Winner of the John Lyman Book Award Winner of the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Mo