Mississippi Jack

Mississippi Jack : being an account of the further waterborne adventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman, fine lady, and the Lily of the West / L. A. Meyer ; read by Katherine Kellgren.— [Roseland] : Listen & Live Audio, Inc., 2009.
1 WMA downloadable audio file (250188 KB) (17 hr., 25 min.)
(Bloody Jack adventure; 5)
Unabridged.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9781593164478 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)


1. Adventure stories. 2. Fink, Mike, 1770-1823?—Fiction. 3. Mississippi River – History – 19th century – Fiction. 4. Orphans – Fiction. 5. River boats – Fiction.

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With the aid of her friends, Jacky Faber again escapes a British naval brig and heads west into the American wilderness Unknown to her, and delayed by the fickle fortunes of fate her true love, Jaimy Fletcher, is following in her tracks. Relieving the boisterous boasting Mike Fink of his keelboat on the Allegheny River she poles, paddles, and floats downstream to the headwaters of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh. She and her growing crew of companions repaint and outfit their craft as “The Belle of the Golden West” and take this miniature showboat and gambling den down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Along the way she and her crew outwit, out gun, or with the aid of fate, escape hostile natives, settlers, slave traders, British agents (some cruel and some amorous), (other) river pirates, a hurricane and a tornado.

Kellgren reads, sings, and acts Jacky’s adventures with the full gusto that Meyer’s text deserves. Hearing Mississippi Jack leaves no doubt in the listeners mind about why she has (so far) been awarded three Odyssey honors for her narration of Bloody Jack’s adventures.