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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 286

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iversteamers were similarly equipped. Light, strong andspeedy, she was eminently a vessel for hard and continu- ♦The Quartermaster Generals report for 1876-77 gives her exacttonnage as 397.81 tons. 238 ^ z ^ ^ ^ C 3 3 K 02 c >■ 1 ^^ c .^ V £j ~ 2 M :^ £ E W J; .^ ^ ^ a 5 _ ■ m.-^^ S3 x ^ ^ 9:… … The Heroine of the Upper River ous service. During her long tour of duty that summerthe Government paid $360.00 per day for her use. At Yankton, where the Far West had spent the winter,she began loading with Government stores for Fort Lin-coln and the troops in the field as soon as she could…

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

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