Up the River is the sixth and last of “The Great Western Series.” The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not often taken by tourists, to his home in Michigan. His voyaging on the ocean, the Great Lakes, and the Father of Waters, is finished for the present; but the writer believes that his principal character has grown wiser and better since he was first introduced to the reader. He has made mistakes of judgment, but whatever of example and inspiration he may impart to the reader will be that of a true and noble boy, with no vices to disfigure his character, and no low aims to lead him from “the straight and narrow path” of duty.Dorchester, Mass., June 1, 1881(Introduction by Author)

Latest episodes of the podcast Up the River by Oliver Optic

• 00 – Preface
• 01 – In Captain Boomsby’s Salon
• 02 – Four Thousand Dollars
• 03 – Adieu to the Boomsbys
• 04 – Nick Boomsby has Aspirations
• 05 – The Strange Movement of the Islander
• 06 – A Lively Chase
• 07 – A Fog off the Florida Coast
• 08 – A Port in a Storm
• 09 – A Visit from an Old Acquaintance
• 10 – Intelligence of the Islander
• 11 – Difficult Navigation
• 12 – The Calamity on French Reef
• 13 – A Night Lost in the Storm
• 14 – Looking for the Islander
• 15 – A Partial Solution of the Mystery
• 16 – Across the Gulf of Mexico
• 17 – The Sylvania in Ambush
• 18 – How Nick Boomsby managed his Case
• 19 – A Search for the Lost Treasure
• 20 – The Theory and the Facts
• 21 – Up the Mississippi
• 22 – The Islander in a Bad Fix
• 23 – An Embarrassing Situation
• 24 – A Crevasse on the Mississippi
• 25 – Sailing Across the Fields
• 26 – A Desperate Struggle with the Rushing Waters
• 27 – The Planter and his Family
• 28 – A Distinguished Passenger
• 29 – Up the River for many Days
• 30 – Up another River and Home Again