History of early steamboat navigation on the Missouri River : life and adventures of Joseph La Barge
A two-volume history of Missouri River steamboating and a biography of pilot Joseph La Barge, written by army engineer Hiram Martin Chittenden and published in New York by F.P. Harper in 1903 for readers of western and fur-trade history. Plates mix halftone portrait photographs of captains and traders with tonal wash drawings of wide river valleys, buffalo driven over bluffs, and snagged timber under smoky skies, useful for grey-scale landscape backdrops and period figure heads.
