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Updated: June 24, 2025
And many were the tales of stirring adventure and tragic accident at this dangerous point of the river's journey to the far-away sea. Skilled rivermen, by holding their John-boats and canoes close to the far shore, might run the rapids with safety.
I've been to see those La Biche rivermen." "Where's La Biche, and what rivermen?" "Oh, you know, Lac la Biche, way up country, where the rivermen come from." "I don't know anything about 'em you mean 'scow men'?" "Of course," answered Roy, taking off his coat. "I wanted to see 'em and I knew they got in last night.
Like longshoremen of all ages, the American riverman was as rough as the work which calloused his hands and transformed his muscles into bands of tempered steel. Like all men given to hard but intermittent labor, he employed his intervals of leisure in coarse and brutal recreation. Their roistering exploits, indeed, have made these rivermen almost better known at play than at work.
The camp of the rivermen was two hundred yards below the bateau, screened between by a finger of hardwood, so that except when they broke into a chorus of laughter or strengthened their throats with snatches of song, there was no sound of their voices.
"I've hit men that hard before with my bare fist." "Did they survive?" "Surely." "What kind of armour-plates were they, in heaven's name?" Orde had recovered his balance and humour. "Just plain ordinary rivermen," said he with a laugh. "Gentlemen," struck in Gerald, "I want to introduce you to my friend." He performed the introductions.
"Same reason you wouldn't," said Welton bluntly. "A good white water man has to start younger. Besides, what's the use? There won't be any rivermen ten year from now. Say, you," he raised his voice peremptorily, "what do you call yourself?" The boy looked up startled, saw that he was indicated, stammered, and caught his voice. "John Harvey, sir," he replied.
Were not the canals water-ways, too, like the river, and if the State unnaturally abandoned them would not it be for the behoof of those railroads which the rivermen had always fought, and which would have made a solitude of the river if they could?
"Did he tell you so?" she asked with apparent interest. "I've had a letter from him, and in it he says he is with me 'to the knife! That's good. Tarboe has a big hold on rivermen, and he may carry with him some of the opposition. It was a good letter if puzzling." "How, puzzling?"
Arrived at the bank of the river, Bob swung his burden to the ground, knelt by it, and lit a match. The rivermen, gathering close, saw that the bundle around the end of the sapling consisted of a dozen rolls of giant powder from which dangled a short fuse. Bob touched his match to the split outer end of the fuse. It spluttered viciously.
The lower reaches of the Mississippi River bore among rivermen, during the early days of the century, very much such a reputation as the Spanish Main bore among the peaceful mariners of the Atlantic trade.
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