History of early steamboat navigation on the Missouri River : life and adventures of Joseph La Barge (1903)
Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917 · New York : F.P. Harper · leaf 99
constant change that is going onin the location of its channel. This seems to be insome places a periodical matter. The forces of theriver get to working on particular lines and push theirdevastations for many years in one general direction.Being finally arrested by some insurmountable obsta-cle,… … O so o K 3 9 o A WINDING WATERWAY. JJ The river, in its unrestrained rambles from bluffto bluff, performs some curious freaks. It developsthe most remarkable bends, varying in length fromone to thirty miles, with distances across the necksbut a small fraction of those around. In time thesenarrow…
