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IV
AMERICAN EXPLORERS SERIES
Early Steamboating on Missouri River
VOL. I.
HISTORY OF EARLY
STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION
ON THE
MISSOURI RIVER
LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
JOSEPH LA BARGE
PIONEER NAVIGATOR AND INDIAN TRADER
FOR FIFTY YEARS IDENTIFIED WITH THE COMMERCE OF THE
MISSOURI VALLEY
BY
HIRAM MARTIN CHITTENDEN
Captain Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.
Author of “American Fur Trade of the Far West,” “History
of the Yellowstone National Park,” etc.
WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
NEW YORK
FRANCIS P. HARPER
1903
Copyright, 1903,
BY
FRANCIS P. HARPER.
Edition Limited
to 950 Copies.
TO
THE MEMORY
OF THE
Missouri River Pilot
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Preface, | xi |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Ancestry of Captain La Barge, | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Childhood and Youth, | 13 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Enters the Fur Trade, | 22 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Cholera on the “Yellowstone,” | 32 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Further Service at Cabanné’s, | 40 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Last Year at Cabanné’s, | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |