The Captains

This novel completes the riverboat series, as Caleb, Harvey and Storm experience the rigors of the Civil War and its aftermath. Together, the two men take on vicious river pirates, Indians and Confederate Guerillas, while Storm seeks desperately to return to her heritage, the Indian life in the Rocky Mountains.Fort Benton becomes the head of navigation on the Missouri River, "the world's innermost port", as the demand for transportation of passengers and goods up to the Montana goldfields forces the captains to seek ever shallower draft boats to take on the "Big Muddy" which is "too thin to walk on, too thick to drink."