Just like a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi....
Posted on: August 22, 2017 at 14:09:17 CT
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If they hit a snag, or grounded a boat in the changing river currents, it was their fault for not knowing the river. Captain may not have been in the pilothouse, but he was losing his job.