Mike Fink -- why he was one-half alligator and one-half snapping turtle and one-half mountain lion. He could out-drink, out-fight, out-shoot, out-spit, out-cuss and out-holler any man on the Mississippi. He was the biggest, the baddest, the rollickingest, roughneckest, two-fistedest baddest-assed keelboatman on the river.

Until the day he met Davy Crockett.

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