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
Byvarious changes of ownership it passed into the hands .330 THE DIAMOND R COMPANY. of Montana men. It soon became a great company,with a complete organization of agents, issuing its:bills of lading to all points, both in and out of theTerritory. At one time it employed no less thantwelve hundred… … CHAPTER XXVIII. CAPTAIN LA BARGE IN MONTANA. Captain La Barge sold the Emilie late in the win-ter of 1862-63. In the following winter he made anunexpected sale of the Shreveport. Henry Ames &Co., pork packers, sent their clerk one day to see ifthe Captain would sell the boat. He replied that…
