Unnamed Steamboat Captain

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-02 15:49
Character Key Number: 
3199
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Unnamed Steamboat Captain
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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.

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