Download or read book Missouri River Navigation and the Railroads written by Missouri River Navigation Association and published by . This book was released on 192? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River Abridged Annotated written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No less authority than Hiram Chittenden wrote this marvelous history of the early days of one of America's most important waterways. A West Point engineer, namesake of the Hiram Chittenden locks in Seattle, Chittenden was a respected historian of early western America. There was no railroad system in the United States whose importance to its tributary country was relatively greater than was that of the Missouri River to the trans-Mississippi territory in the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century. Through the earliest days of navigation on the great Missouri, through its use in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, Custer's Last Stand, and its eventual demise as a major highway due to the development of the railroads, this history tells of an America that depended on rivers for expansion. Though Grant Marsh captained the steamer Far West, which took the wounded Little Bighorn survivors to Ft. Lincoln, La Barge also saw service as a captain on Custer's Yellowstone Expedition. The life of Joseph La Barge exemplifies the 19th century life of the river. The author met La Barge shortly before his death and found him to be an extraordinary wealth of information about early steamboat travel, as La Barge had owned and operated boats on the river for many years. He was on the first boat that went to the far upper river, and he made the last through voyage from St. Louis to Fort Benton. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book Missouri River from Kansas City Mo to the Mouth written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No less authority than Hiram Chittenden wrote this marvelous history of the early days of one of America's most important waterways. A West Point engineer, namesake of the Hiram Chittenden locks in Seattle, Chittenden was a respected historian of early western America. There was no railroad system in the United States whose importance to its tributary country was relatively greater than was that of the Missouri River to the trans-Mississippi territory in the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century. Through the earliest days of navigation on the great Missouri, through its use in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, Custer's Last Stand, and its eventual demise as a major highway due to the development of the railroads, this history tells of an America that depended on rivers for expansion. Though Grant Marsh captained the steamer Far West, which took the wounded Little Bighorn survivors to Ft. Lincoln, La Barge also saw service as a captain on Custer's Yellowstone Expedition.
Download or read book History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Railroad of Missouri written by Pacific Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missouri River at and Near Glasgow Mo written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Director General of Railroads written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Mississippi written by Emerson W. Gould and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Mississippi Or Gould s History of River Navigation written by Emerson W. Gould and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Upper Mississippi River Navigation Improvement Providing a 9 Ft Channel Depth Between Minneapolis and the Missouri River written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River Life and Adventures of Joseph la Barge written by Hiram Martin Chittenden and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...West. In the faculty of making the unknown known, of doing work in such a way as to make its results popular with the public, in spreading a knowledge of the Great West throughout his country and throughout the world, he stood without a peer among the explorers of that region. In the broader field of national politics or great military responsibility, he was wading beyond his depth. Thomas H. Benton, Fremont's father-in-law, and Missouri's greatest statesman, was an intimate acquaintance of Captain La Barge, the two men having known each other from La Barge's childhood until Benton's death. Captain La Barge had a great admiration for the bluff old Senator, although he did not like the way in which he used his powerful influence in shielding the American Fur Company on so many occasions from the just consequences of their illegal acts. Benton was a frequent passenger on the Missouri River boats, and La Barge saw a great deal of him there. He recalled particularly a trip which the Senator made as far up as Kansas City, where he went to meet Fremont, who was returning from the West. It was a very interesting voyage. The people all along the river wanted to see him, and calls for " Old Bullion" compelled him to appear at every landing place. He made numerous addresses, and the boat was frequently delayed to permit this interchange of greetings between the people and their distinguished servant. Benton was in the pilot-house a great deal, --as every traveler in those days liked to be, --and La Barge never forgot his expression of deep faith in the future of the West, so unlike that of most of his Congressional associates from east of the Mississippi. He said once to Captain La Barge: "You will live to see railroads across to the...
Download or read book Fifty Years on the Mississippi written by Emerson W. Gould and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossroads of a Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Download or read book Unruly River written by Robert Kelley Schneiders and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes a long historical view to reconstruct the Missouri Valley environment before Euro-American settlement and then trace the environmental transformations resulting from the development projects of the 19th and 20th centuries.
