The Monongahela (The Rivers of America Series)
New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1952. Cosgrave, John O'Hara. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2329811
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket price clipped, endpapers faintly foxed.
239, [3] pp. 8vo. Illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. "The exciting, awful, dirty, beautiful Monongahela! - that workhorse of American rivers, where more hell pops in any ten miles than in five hundred on the Mississippi or the Congo - here is the free-wheeling saga of its men, boats and way of life, right from the heart of a riverman - poet and scholar! The Combine, old man Overholt, Carnegie - whiskey, fish, steamboats, smoke, locks, dams -- all the racy, raucous facts of the Monongahela's long career; miners and steel-workers, roaring their protests against smoke and flame; rivermen, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Germans, boys from the slums of Chicago, boys from Illinois black-dirt country -- a breed by themselves, sinking their teeth into life 'like it was a Kansas City sirloin rare...' It's all here, recorded with gusto, humor and brawny authority."
Price: $75.00