1. Steamboat Economics Roald Tweet 3:16

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Mark Twain would have us believe that boys along the Mississippi in his day longed to become steamboat captains because of the romance of those floating wedding cakes and the mystery of the great Mississippi itself. A closer look might reveal a deeper and far more American reason to take up steam boating: money.

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