The Conquest of the Missouri

by Hanson, Joseph; Hedren, Paul L.

• ISBN13: 9780811724821
• ISBN10: 0811724824
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

After beginning his career as a 12-year-old riverboat deckhand, Grant Marsh went on to serve with the Federal Mississippi River flotilla during the Civil War. He began piloting the Missouri River in 1873, and was the most popular steamboat captain when the army hired his Far West for the duration of the Great Sioux War.

Table of Contents

Westward by the Main Channel	3	(7)
The Ice Gorge of '56	10	(6)
Old-Time Packets and the Men Who Ruled Them	16	(8)
``Mark Twain'' at the Rudder	24	(6)
Cupid at the ``Apple-Butter Stirring''	30	(5)
The Battle Morn of Shiloh	35	(13)
Barbarism at Bay	48	(5)
With Sully Into the Sioux Lands	53	(8)
Three Roads to El Dorado	61	(8)
The ``Luella'' at Fort Benton in Vigilante Days	69	(11)
The Troubles of a Treasure Ship	80	(8)
The Captain Encounters a ``Bad Man''	88	(5)
Blockaded by Buffalo	93	(6)
A Game of Strategy	99	(6)
Ice-Bound on the ``Nile''	105	(10)
Wood Hawks	115	(6)
The Vegetable Trip of the ``North Alabama''	121	(8)
The Hare and the Tortoise	129	(7)
A Three Thousand Mile Race	136	(8)
The Railroad Comes	144	(5)
With Forsyth of Beecher's Island	149	(9)
``Yellowstone'' Kelly Guides the ``Key West''	158	(13)
Campaigning with the Seventh Cavalry	171	(18)
Pioneer Paths	189	(4)
Bound for the Mountains	193	(9)
Breasting Unknown Waters	202	(8)
``Lonesome Charlie''	210	(4)
By Line and Spar to the Head of Navigation	214	(12)
First Blood for Crazy Horse	226	(7)
Custer to the Front	233	(4)
The Heroine of the Upper River	237	(8)
Strong Men and True	245	(7)
The Last Council of War	252	(9)
The Seventh Marches Into the Shadow	261	(7)
The Messenger of Disaster	268	(13)
The Squadron that Perished	281	(9)
The Aftermath of Battle	290	(11)
The ``Far West'' Races with Death	301	(15)
The Battle at Powder River	316	(15)
Terry Takes the Field	331	(6)
Patrol Duty with Miles and ``Buffalo Bill''	337	(16)
The Fruits of Struggle	353	(15)
The ``Rosebud'' Carries the General of the Army	368	(8)
The Bones of Heroes	376	(9)
Rustlers	385	(11)
With Kendrick to the Musselshell	396	(10)
The Sioux Bend to Fate	406	(14)
Turned Turtle	420	(6)
The Garden Out of the Wilderness	426