The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles's
novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's
reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a
five-day adventure on the Green River. Aboard the Rambler, a ramshackle
steamboat, Captain Bohannon Cartwright and his crew journey 184 miles
and pick up two extra passengers along the way. The boatmenrescue "Sir
Henry" Cole, a former Shakespearean actor, and his granddaughter Phoebe
from thei