Do you like history? This book is definitely for local history enthusiasts especially the lower Buffalo River.Read a story based on the lives of families when they lived in the Buffalo River area beginning at the mining town of Rush to the Buffalo's confluence with the White River and on up the White to Old Buffalo aka Old Buffalo City. After a family gets settled on their newly acquired property, one of their sons, the main character, befriends an older gentleman. The lad visits him frequently.He listens to the gentleman's stories of actual happenings during the early days of that region. Do you know who Jessie James was? Most of us learned about the Civil War in our History classes at school. Steamboats were a source of traveling up or down rivers back in the 1800s.This story will take you back in time from the Civil War Era to the mid-1940s.