Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Epilogue

DAWN OF A DREAM

A WATERY HIGHWAY: Hartford to the Mississippi River

FALSE START: Wilburton to Seabrook

WARM WINTER: Mississippi River to Galveston

TROUBLED WATERS: Galveston to Port Isabel

THE TRAIN FROM TAMPICO: Galveston to Tampico

NEW CREW: Galveston

A LUMINOUS CROSSING: Galveston to Progreso

REEFS AND ROLLER COASTERS: Progreso to Belize City

SHADES OF GREEN: Belize City to Colon

DOLLAR ON A DIME: The Panama Canal

A PACIFIC PRIMER: Balboa to Puntarenas

PHONES AND FEATHERED FRIENDS: Puntarenas to Manzanillo

THE WIND AND THE WILD: Manzanillo to San Diego

DANGER AND A BABY DUCK: San Diego to Monterey

FOOLS RUSH INLAND: Monterey to Bellingham

A BATH AND A BOTTLE OF POP: Bellingham to Ketchikan

RED DOG TO PRETTY LADY: Ketchikan

THE TIDE OF TIME: Pennock Island

A DREAM DONE

Hauling the Red Dog from Hartford to Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1971.

Melvin piloting the Red Dog along the Arkansas River, 1971.

Cecil and Red Dog, Galveston, Texas, 1971.