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 288
fteen-inch diameterengines of five-foot piston stroke, built by the HerbertsonEngine Works of Brownsville, Pa., and she carried threeboilers. She was also provided with two steam capstans,one on each side of the bow, being the first boat ever builtwith more than one, though afterward all Missouri… … 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…
