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The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh (1909)

Hanson, Joseph Mills, b. 1876 · Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co. · leaf 164

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deck where theywere in imminent danger of freezing. Captain Marshtherefore had them all transferred to the hold and smallfires kindled there to keep the air warm. It was a dan-gerous experiment to try on a frail wooden steamboat, butguards were stationed in the hold to watch the fires, andno… … The Vegetable Trip of the North Alabama North Alabama struggled ahead, her progress becomingslower and slower, until she rounded the point at the footof Plum Pudding Butte and came into the wide valleywhere Big Muddy Bend sweeps between its timberedbanks. Here on the morning of October 22d, at…

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

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