The Man Who Walked the River
With little schooling past his teens, he walked the bed of the Mississippi in a whiskey-barrel diving bell, then went on to build ironclad gunboats and a steel bridge that experts swore would fall.
With little schooling past his teens, he walked the bed of the Mississippi in a whiskey-barrel diving bell, then went on to build ironclad gunboats and a steel bridge that experts swore would fall.