Capt. Grant Marsh was one of the river pilots who navigated the shoals and rapids of the Missouri River. Captain Marsh watched Jackson?s sense of American Manifest Destiny unfold. He helped survey the upper reaches of the Missouri, he took his steamer to the shallows of little Bighorn to return battle-weary soldiers to their homes, and he watched as the region was transformed from a lonesome wilderness to a region of agriculture, commerce, and industry. In his presentation of the life of the great steamboat captain, Joseph Mills Hanson provides historical context for Captain Marsh?s accomplishments and uses accounts of his contemporaries to breathe life into one of the men who helped shape the future of this nation. The Conquest of the Missouri is one of the classic narratives on the history of the American West.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- INTRODUCTION TO MURRAY HILL EDITION
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I: WESTWARD BY THE MAIN CHANNEL
- CHAPTER II: THE ICE GORGE OF '56
- CHAPTER III: OLD-TIME PACKETS AND THE MEN WHO RULED THEM
- CHAPTER IV: "MARK TWAIN" AT THE RUDDER
- CHAPTER V: CUPID AT THE "APPLE-BUTTER STIRRING"
- CHAPTER VI: THE BATTLE MORN OF SHILOH
- CHAPTER VII: BARBARISM AT BAT
- CHAPTER VII: WITH SULLY INTO THE SIOUX LANDS
- CHAPTER IX: THREE ROADS TO EL DORADO
- CHAPTER X: THE LUELLA AT FORT BENTON IN VIGILANTE DAYS
- CHAPTER XI: THE TROUBLES OF A TREASURE SHIP
- CHAPTER XII: THE CAPTAIN ENCOUNTERS A "BAD MAN"
- CHAPTER XIII: BLOCKADED BY BUFFALO
- CHAPTER XIV: A GAME OF STRATEGY
- CHAPTER XV: ICE-BOUND ON THE NILE
- CHAPTER XVI: WOOD HAWKS
- CHAPTER XVII: THE VEGETABLE TRIP OF THE NORTH ALABAMA
- CHAPTER XVIII: THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
- CHAPTER XIX: A THREE THOUSAND MILE RACE
- CHAPTER XX: THE RAILROAD COMES
- CHAPTER XXI: WITH FORSYTH OF BEECHER'S ISLAND
- CHAPTER XXII: "YELLOWSTONE" KELLY GUIDES THE KEY WEST
- CHAPTER XXIII: CAMPAIGNING WITH THE SEVENTH CAVALRY
- CHAPTER XXIV: PIONEER PATES
- CHAPTER XXV: BOUND FOR THE MOUNTAINS
- CHAPTER XXVI: BREASTING UNKNOWN WATERS
- CHAPTER XXVII: "LONESOME CHARLIE"
- CHAPTER XXVIII: BY LINE AND SPAR TO THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION
- CHAPTER XXIX: FIRST BLOOD FOR CRAZY HORSE
- CHAPTER XXX: CUSTER TO THE FRONT
- CHAPTER XXXI: THE HEROINE OF THE UPPER RIVER
- CHAPTER XXXII: STRONG MEN AND TRUE
- CHAPTER XXXIII: THE LAST COUNCIL OF WAR
- CHAPTER XXXIV: THE SEVENTH MARCHES INTO THE SHADOW
- CHAPTER XXXV: THE MESSENGER OF DISASTER
- CHAPTER XXXVI: THE SQUADRON THAT PERISHED
- CHAPTER XXXVII: THE AFTERMATH OF BATTLE
- CHAPTER XXXVIII: THE FAR WEST RACES WITH DEATH
- CHAPTER XXXIX: THE BATTLE AT POWDER RIVER
- CHAPTER XL: TERRY TAKES THE FIELD
- CHAPTER XLI: PATROL DUTY WITH MILES AND "BUFFALO BILL"
- CHAPTER XLII: THE FRUITS OF STRUGGLE
- CHAPTER XLIII: THE ROSEBUD CARRIES THE GENERAL OF THE ARMY?
- CHAPTER XLIV: THE BONES OF HEROES
- CHAPTER XLV: RUSTLERS
- CHAPTER XLVI: WITH KENDRICK TO THE MUSSELSHELL
- CHAPTER XLVII: THE SIOUX BEND TO FATE
- CHAPTER XLVIII: TURNED TURTLE
- CHAPTER XLIX: THE GARDEN OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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