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The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh

Hanson, Joseph Mills, b. 1876 · 1909 · Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co. · 36 pictures

A 1909 biography by Joseph Mills Hanson, published in Chicago by A.C. McClurg, recounting steamboat captain Grant Marsh's career on the Missouri River for readers of frontier and Indian-war history. Halftone plates from photographs show riverbank encampments, tipi clusters, stockade and pole structures, and mounted figures in wide, low-contrast panoramas useful for grainy horizon bands and small silhouetted crowds.

Marsh, Grant Prince, 1834-1916 · Steam-navigation -- Missouri River · Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 · Dakota Indians -- Wars · Northwestern States

Internet Archive · New York Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0