Download or read book High Water written by Richard Bissell and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Water: Duke Snyder found his first job on a stern wheeler when he was sixteen years old. Ten years later he's still on the river aboard an old diesel towboat hauling eight barges of coal toward the Chain of Rocks above St. Louis with all hands on deck facing the ominous rise of high water.