Editing Clan McDuck (section)

=== Angus "Pothole" McDuck ===
'''Angus "Pothole" McDuck''' (born 1829) is the first child of Dingus and Molly McDuck, and is Scrooge's paternal uncle. Angus was born in [[Glasgow]] in 1829.<ref name="Rosa"/> He was first mentioned in "The Great Steamboat Race" by Carl Barks and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by Don Rosa.

Angus migrated to the United States during the late 1840s. In 1850 he was working as a cabin boy in the [[Steamboats of the Mississippi|Mississippi riverboat]] ''Drennan Whyte'' when it sank. He was the only survivor.<ref name="LoS2">[[Don Rosa]]: "The Master of the Mississippi" (chapter 2 of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]''. First published 1992 ([http://coa.INDUCKS.org/story.php?c=D+91411 I.N.D.U.C.K.S. entry]).</ref> He continued working on Mississippi riverboats and he had obtained his own by 1861, named ''Cotton Queen''. Around the time of the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865) he became quite successful as a river boater. Soon after the end of the war in 1865 he and fellow river boater [[List of Donald Duck universe characters#Porker Hogg|Porker Hogg]] became the co-owners of Cornpone Gables, a [[plantations in the American South|Southern plantation]] that had gone bankrupt. The two were unable to settle their differences and they decided to have a riverboat race in 1870 to decide who would be the owner. Both riverboats sank. Porker had two more riverboats but Angus spent the next ten years as a professional card player.

In 1880, in a poker game with Porker, Angus won the rights to one of his rival's riverboats, named ''Dilly Dollar''. Porker soon lost his other riverboat to [[Blackheart Beagle]] and his sons, the first generation of the [[Beagle Boys]], a family of outlaws, and retired. Angus on the other hand hired his nephew [[Scrooge McDuck]] and a penniless inventor named [[Gyro Gearloose#Ratchet Gearloose|Ratchet Gearloose]] as his crew. Business wasn't going well and Angus decided to retire in 1882. He left his riverboat to his nephew and settled down in [[New Orleans]].<ref name="LoS2"/>

He became the writer of a series of [[dime novel]]s under the title ''The Master of Mississippi'', based on a highly exaggerated description of his life. His dime novels became very popular and to have more material to add he occasionally traveled through the country.<ref name="Bluff">[[Don Rosa]]: "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff". First published 1996 ([http://coa.INDUCKS.org/story.php?c=D+96089 I.N.D.U.C.K.S. entry])</ref> In the story "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff" by Don Rosa, he is seen appearing at [[Buffalo Bill]]'s Wild West. After the show's money is stolen by the [[Dalton Gang]], Angus rides out with Bill, Scrooge, [[P. T. Barnum]], [[Annie Oakley]], and [[Geronimo]] to stop the bandits.<ref name="Bluff"/>

Angus' exact date of death is unknown.

In 1955, Porker's nephew, Horseshoe Hogg, and Scrooge McDuck would bring their uncles' [[steamboat]]s back to the surface to finish the race for Cornpone Gables. Scrooge won, only to learn that 85 years of disuse made the mansion so fragile that he accidentally destroyed it with a sneeze.

A character based on Angus named '''"Catfish" McDuck''' appears in the 1987 ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' episode, "Once Upon a Dime", voiced by [[Peter Renaday]],