[1010RD]

But, were they Mormons?

[meadsjn]

I don't recall the book having any religious references, but the time for the story would have been pre-Civil War. I read it in about the fifth or sixth grade from the school library.

The rivers and the Great Lakes in those days would have been the Wild West. Mark Twain's villains seemed to be interchangeably pirates, preachers, snake-oil salesmen, politicians, and such. Still about the same.

High Piracy on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

[ravenwolf]

I believe at that time who would be better to blame it on.