Mike Fink

John Fink who said that Mike Fink was a relative. Mike Fink also appears in Eudora Welty's parodic fairy-tale The Robber Bridegroom. (Hugh Glass was called Old Hugh for being in his early 40s.

1770/1780 – c. Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck) (c. 1823) called "king of the keelboaters" was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.