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 84
bluffs bordering the left bank of the stream werenoticed to be littered with pieces of bent and twisted iron.Its presence in that wild country excited wonder, andMarsh and some of his companions landed to investigate.They found the iron to be the tires and other metal partsof a number of wagons… … With Sully Into the Sioux Lands had abandoned and burned them. Owing to this circum-stance the steamboat men called the eminence Wagon-wheel Bluff, by which name it is still known. The Island City and her consorts proceeded on theirway to the Yellowstone, and at about sunset on theevening when they…
