Mike Fink, The Boastful River King: An American Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Courage and Humility
Along the restless waters of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, where fog rolled low and the cries of riverbirds echoed through dawn’s mist, there once ruled a man larger than life, Mike Fink, the self-proclaimed King of the Keelboatmen. Born on the wild American frontier, Mike was part woodsman, part showman, and wholly fearless. He was a man who lived