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In the Driftway
The Drifter | January 25, 1933 issue

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In recording the death in Memphis the other day of Captain George Peters Lee, the newspapers noted that his passing removed the last of a famous steamboat family to follow the Mississippi River. The historic Lee Line itself came to an end more than two years ago when its sole surviving vessel, the Valley Queen, was sold for excursion purposes. He was only fifty-seven years old when he died, and even his adolescence did not reach back to the magic era when a swashbuckling United States nobly gambled and blasphemed and ate and drank and shot its way up and down the Father of Waters.

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LEE, George Peters; SHIPS; EXCURSION boats; NEWSPAPERS; MISSISSIPPI River; UNITED States
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