1. Captain Worden Roald Tweet 2:55

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Captain Jones Worden became such an important Upper Mississippi riverman that he ended up in several biographical dictionaries. In each of these entries, however, several years of his life were erased, all because of a printer’s error.

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