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 65
to go to Washington to seeabout it, he sold the boat for twenty thousand dollarsto the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and left tothat company the task of securing its release. He thenchartered the Robert Campbell, and, with the Shreve-port, prepared for a voyage to Fort Benton. It provedto be a… … DISASTROUS DELAY. 299 the Sioux, Crows, Blackfeet, and Assiniboines, to-gether with some other freight, making a cargo ofnearly five hundred tons. The Shreveport got awayfrom port in the latter part of April, but the Campbellwas subjected to annoying and even disastrous delayby the failure of the…
