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 30
be spent. For one year he remained with the Aubrey andthen changed to the A. B. Chambers, Captain Bowman. There was plenty of business to do, for until the summerof 1855, when the Missouri Pacific was completed to Jef-ferson City, no railroad extended westward along the Mis-souri from St. Louis.… … Westward by the Main Channel great crops of tobacco, hemp, and small grain, producedby slave labor on the plantations of the valley, began topour into the steamboat landings for shipment to the St.Louis markets. Kansas City did not yet exist and West-port was the northern terminus of the historic…
