Book Two of Lloyd's Riverboat Trilogy . . . This novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone book or read as part of the series. Caleb Shaw comes out of the mountains and becomes a riverboat man, working the steamboats of the Missouri and the Mississippi. It tells the story of Lucian Lambeau, his fat French sidekick, Bulgann, and Storm, the little Indian girl rescued from the swift current. The shanty Irish of St. Louis are depicted, with their bitter gang rivalries. UPRIVER also introduces the reader to Harvey Allen, the pilot apprentice to Anson LaFarge, the captain of the Western Star, the swiftest boat on the river.