Motor Boat Boys

Front cover of Motor Boat Boys' Mississippi Cruise, 1914 edition.

The Motor Boat Boys, by Louis Arundel, is a series of adventure books for boys, published by M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago, Illinois, from 1912 through 1915. The series featured six teen-aged boys of the Motor Boat Club, and their adventures on various waterways.

The first book in the series, Motor Boat Boys, followed a group of boys racing down the Mississippi River. Along the way, the boys encountered numerous difficulties but succeeded in winning the race. ^[1]

Boats and crews

• Tramp

Pilot: Jack Stormaways (also Commodore of the Motor Boat Club)

Mate: Jimmy Brannagan

• Wireless

Pilot: George Rollins

Mate: Nick Longfellow

• Comfort

Pilot: Herb Dickson

Mate: Josh Purdue

Series titles

• Motor Boat Boys' Mississippi Cruise; or The Dash for Dixie, 1912.
• Motor Boat Boys on the Great Lakes; or Exploring the Mystic Isle of Mackinac, 1912. ^[2]
• Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence River; or Adventures Among the Thousand Islands , 1912.
• Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys; or The Struggle for the Leadership, 1913.
• Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast; or Through Storm and Stress to Florida, 1913.
• Motor Boat Boys' River Chase; or Six Chums Afloat and Ashore, 1914.
• Motor Boat Boys Down the Danube; or Caught in the Whirlpool of War, 1915.

References

1. Soderbergh, Peter A. (Spring 1974). "The South in Juvenile Series Books, 1907-1917". The Mississippi Quarterly . 27 (2): 133–134 – via JSTOR.
2. Andrews, Clarence (1992). Michigan in Literature. Wayne State University Press. p. 121. ISBN   0-8143-2368-5 . Retrieved 2025-11-05– via Google Books.

External links

• Motor Boat Boys' Mississippi Cruise; or The Dash for Dixie at Manybooks.net
• Motor Boat Boys public domain audiobook at LibriVox

• Children's literature portal