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 114
one of theearly river posts. Even when, after vast toil and hard-ship, they were at last completed, so inadequate had beenthe tools and so wretched the materials available forbuilding purposes that they were scarcely habitable. Colo-nel D. B. Sackett, U. S. A., a very observant officer whoascended… … The Troubles oj a Treasure Ship tirely of Cottonwood logs with dirt floors and roofs and nowindows, as there were no casings for them and no glass.Being erected close to the river bank on the bottoms, theywere liable to be flooded in high water, while the rains ofsummer soaked through the mud…
