The "Coal Queen"
RICHARD P. BISSELLis a young Harvard graduate who holds a pilot’s license on the Monongahela and the Mississippi, He learned the river first as deck hand, then as Hate, and finally as Pilot; he knows the river towns and what goes on when the barges and the towboat are tied up and the crew is up the bank. The Coal Queen was his first towboat as Pilot, and his account of his adventures aboard her in the upper reaches of the Monongahela has been selected by the Atlantic editors for one of the I Personally Awards.