Presents a dramatic script set in 1807, and describing how young Brenton Dixon got a job aboard Robert Fulton's new steamboat. His work with Fulton turned into a lifelong career on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
A steamboat pilot recalls the day in 1807 when he saw a steamboat designed by Robert Fulton, the first on the Hudson River, and the people around him thought it must be some kind of monster.
