Category: History - American
In a great many ways the War of the Rebellion affected the commerce of the Missouri River. Missouri was a slave State, and most of her citizens along the river were Southern sympathizers. It is stated that all the Missouri River pilots except two were in sympathy with the Sout...
What of the future? Is the useful purpose of the Missouri River in the up-building of the West already fulfilled? Is its great history a closed book? Such, it must be admitted,...
12. CHAPTER XXXI.The rôle which the army was called upon to fill in the history of our Indian affairs was a most unpleasant one. It began while the proud spirit of the tribes was as yet unbroken...
6. CHAPTER XXV.Deferring for the present our narrative of the fortunes of La Barge, Harkness & Co., we shall recount one of those mournful tragedies and one of those instances of official corr...
2. CHAPTER XXI.In a great many ways the War of the Rebellion affected the commerce of the Missouri River. Missouri was a slave State, and most of her citizens along the river were Southern sym...
14. CHAPTER XXXIII.We left Captain La Barge in 1865 just as he had returned from Montana on his second journey by way of Great Salt Lake. His boat, the _Effie Deans_, had reached St. Louis some ti...
17. CHAPTER XXXVI.As soon as the ice broke up in the spring of 1868 Captain La Barge commenced work on the river, and after two trips to St. Joseph advertised for a trip to Benton. He received a...
11. CHAPTER XXX.The course of this narrative has shown that a large portion of the business of the Missouri River steamboats pertained to the Indians who dwelt on the banks of that stream. The...
3. CHAPTER XXII.If the Civil War operated to drive commerce from the lower Missouri River, other forces were at work at the head waters of that stream to multiply it many fold. At the time when...
10. CHAPTER XXIX.In connection with his work for the government it became necessary for Captain La Barge to make several visits to Washington. Considering the interesting period through which th...
5. CHAPTER XXIV.With a view to entering, upon a large scale, into the newly developing business at the head waters of the Missouri, the firm of La Barge, Harkness & Co. was formed in St. Louis...
4. CHAPTER XXIII.In the summer of 1863 a party of twenty-one men and three women went down the Missouri in a mackinaw boat from Fort Benton. They reached the vicinity of the mouth of Apple Creek...
13. CHAPTER XXXII.Throughout the Indian wars of the Missouri Valley the steamboat played a part of the very highest importance. It was almost the exclusive means of transporting men and supplies...
15. CHAPTER XXXIV.The voyage of the _Octavia_ in the summer of 1867 was one of the most successful and important in all Captain La Barge’s career on the river. It was unhappily marred by a most r...
9. CHAPTER XXVIII.Captain La Barge sold the _Emilie_ late in the winter of 1862–63. In the following winter he made an unexpected sale of the _Shreveport_. Henry Ames & Co., pork packers, sent th...
16. CHAPTER XXXV.The great enemy of the Missouri River steamboat was the railroad. The impression now exists that the river has ceased to be a navigable stream. It has ceased to be a navigated s...
7. CHAPTER XXVI.At the mouth of the Yellowstone the voyage of the _Robert Campbell_ came abruptly to an end. There was only a depth of two feet over the Yellowstone bar, and it was a physical i...
18. CHAPTER XXXVII.It is a sad reflection that, after a life of hard and useful work and the prominent part he took in up-building the great West, Captain La Barge should have closed his career in...
8. CHAPTER XXVII.The steamboat _Shreveport_, with the annual outfit of the new firm for the year 1863, did not get above Cow Island on account of the extremely low stage of the river. No other b...
1. CHAPTER XXXVIII.