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IV
AMERICAN EXPLORERS SERIES
Early Steamboating on Missouri River
VOL. II.
KENNETT MCKENZIE
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. II.
NEW YORK
FRANCIS P. HARPER
1903
Copyright, 1903,
BY
FRANCIS P. HARPER.