Here are a few new composition sketches for the Notable Missourian book on Joseph Kinney. Joseph Kinney was a 19th century steamboat mogul who spent most of his life in Boonville, Missouri. I call him a mogul but honestly I'm not sure what mogul means. I think I'll look that up.
These sketches are for the Notable Missourian book on Joseph Kinney, written by Maryellen McVicker and published by Truman State University Press.
Joseph Kinney as a teen working on a dock while watching an early river steamboat pass by.
Joseph Kinney's investment in a flatboat ended in disaster when the boat sank.
Joseph Kinney opened a shoe store in Boonville. While working there he met his second wife, Matilda. Business was good and he accrued enough money to return to his passion, steamboats.
A steamboat race on the Missouri River. Who wouldn't love a steamboat race?
An aerial view of old Boonville showing Joseph Kinney's mansion, Riverscene, on the north side of the Missouri.
This one won't be used but it amused my inner cartoonist. Here he's posing for his portrait painting by George Caleb Bingham and he can't help getting excited and breaking his pose when he sees a steamboat passing by on the river.