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 213
to 1894 Captain La Barge held a posi-tion under the city government of St. Louis. Hisvery last remunerative work of any kind was for theUnited States Government, under the direction of theauthor of this work, whom he helped compile a Hst ofthe steamboat wrecks which have occurred on the Mis-souri… … GREATEST WRECK OF ALL. 439 dred, the Captains memory embraced them nearly all,and most of them with great accuracy of detail. Truly a mournful task was this to the veteran pilot.What reminiscences of a strange and wonderful pastdid it bring to mind! He lived over again his riverlife of fifty years,…
