A review by dancingdane
Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson

3.0

nice winter/Christmas short story from Craig Johnson. A young girl and her family are in an accident near Billings, MT, and the girl is the only survivor. She is badly burned, and needs to get to Children's Hospital in Denver on Christmas eve. But in order to do that, medevac has to beat the fast moving storm coming down from Canada.

I knew about the bucking bronc named Steamboat, for which the plane that Walt and Lucian fly is named, but I didn't know much about his history. I appreciated learning more about the legendary bucker.

What was a little harder for me to get through were the descriptions of the plane. I felt like I needed a map to refer to because I just couldn't visualize all of the spots that Walt crawls through, looks through, hangs out of, etc.