Stewart's Landing

By Mark Stewart

The Mississippi River has always been more than water and mud. It is a witness. It remembers every steamboat that cut across its current, every bale of cotton stacked on its banks, every shout of triumph and every cry of loss. It has watched civilizations rise and fade, and it has carried their stories downstream.
This book is one of those stories.
Stewart's Landing is a work of historical fiction, inspired by the real people and places that once lived and breathed along the river in Pemiscot County, Missouri. The Stewart family, their plantation, and the steamboat landing that bore their name were not legends-they were flesh and blood, their lives bound to the land and to the great waterway that shaped the fate of a nation.
The Civil War swept across Missouri like a fire, consuming not only cities and fields but entire ways of life. Families were divided, towns erased, landings burned. Yet the Mississippi endured, indifferent to human struggle, rolling on as it always had.
In weaving together fact and imagination, letters and memory, this novel seeks to give voice to a place that time has nearly forgotten. Stewart's Landing may no longer stand, but its echoes remain-in court records, in old maps, and in the soil by the river where stories still sleep.
This book is for those who believe history is not only dates and battles, but people: fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters whose choices shaped the world around them. And it is for those who understand that the river itself is a character in our shared past-eternal, restless, and unyielding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTT4MFVL
• ISBN13: 9798267847421
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"