Unnamed Steamboat Captain

Character Key Number: 
3199
Display Name: 
Unnamed Steamboat Captain
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Steamboat Captain
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

The history of Jackson in Requiem for a Nun includes a mention of "the captain" of a riverboat who puts a "gambler" off his ship (83). Steamboats began traveling on the Mississippi River and its tributaries around 1811.