TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chittenden,Hiram Martin
AU  - Heintzelman,Stuart
AU  - Pulsifer,William Henry
TI  - History of early steamboat navigation on the Missouri River: life and adventures of Joseph La Barge, pioneer navigator and Indian trader for fifty years identified with the commerce of the Missouri Valley 
T2  - American explorers series
PY  - 1903///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Francis P. Harper
KW  - La Barge, Joseph,
KW  - Ship captains
KW  - Biography
KW  - Steam-navigation
KW  - Missouri River
KW  - History
KW  - Steamboats
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Missouri River Valley
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Edition Limited to 950 Copies"--Title page verso; Paged continuously; Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 449-461); Vol. 1: Ancestry of Captain La Barge -- Childhood and youth -- Enters the fur trade -- Cholera on the 'Yellowstone' -- Further service at Cabanné's -- Last year at Cabanné's -- Captain La Barge in 'Opposition' -- The Missouri River -- Kinds of boats used on the Missouri -- Steamboat navigation on the Missouri River -- The steamboat in the fur trade -- Voyage of 1843 -- Voyage of 1844 -- Changed conditions -- Incidents on the river (1845-50) -- Incidents on the river (1851-53) -- Ice break-up of 1856 -- The head of navigation reached -- Fort Benton -- Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri; Vol 2: The Civil War -- Gold in Montana -- Incidents on the river (1862-67) -- La Barge again in opposition -- Voyage of 1863: The Tobacco Garden Massacre -- The Blackfoot annuities -- Collapse of the La Barge-Harkness opposition -- Captain La Barge in Montana -- Captain La Barge in Washington -- The Indian of the Missouri Valley -- The Army on the Missouri -- The steamboat in the Indian Wars -- The Peace Commission of 1856 -- The murder of Captain Spear -- The battle with the railroads -- Last voyages to Fort Benton -- Declining years -- Destiny of the Missouri River
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