This first-person account of the world's longest run captures an astounding, but almost unknown feat of human endurance, spirit, and will. Just after the Civil War and before General Custer met his demise at the Little Big Horn, Frederick Good, a young boy from Saint Louis, stows away on a doomed steamship heading up the Missouri to the gold fields in Montana Territory. One morning he awakens to find himself alone on a beached, wrecked steamship in...