deerslayer

The Old Badger: Salvaging the Mohican Editor’s note: This column was first published in The Freeman’s Journal on April 7, 1976. The Steamboat Mohican went down more than 40 years ago, but bits and pieces of information about the boat and its times keep surfacing. Some are pertinent, some impertinent. The rudder of the Mohican was turned into a coffee table; the propeller shaft is still part of a lawn roller; and the wheel now decorates “someone’s” wall. The lake…