"John Maynard" is a ballad by Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) about a helmsman who steers a burning steamboat and its passengers to safety on Lake Erie before dying in the flames.
John Maynard is a ballad by Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899), first published in "Student and Schoolmate" in January 1868. It tells of a helmsman who steers a burning steamboat and its passengers to safety on Lake Erie before dying in the flames.