Old Times on the Upper Mississippi / The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

by George Byron Merrick

LADY MARSHALL—In St. Louis & Galena trade 1837.

LADY WASHINGTON—Captain Shellcross, at Galena, loading for Fort Snelling, 1829.

LAKE CITY—Stern-wheel; built at Pittsburg 1857; Captain Sloan, at St. Paul 1857; in St. Paul trade 1858, 1859; burned by guerrillas at Carson's Landing, Mo., 1862.

LAKE OF THE WOODS—At Galena, from St. Louis, June 5, 1847.

LAMARTINE—First trip to St. Paul 1850; went up to Falls of St. Anthony 1850; at St. Paul June 19, 1851.

LASALLE—At Galena from St. Louis, April 19, 1845.

LATROBE—Stern-wheel; built at Brownsville, Pa., 1853; 159 tons; at St. Paul from St. Louis, 1855.

LAWRENCE—Sixth steamboat to reach Fort Snelling; arrived there in 1826.

LEWIS F. LYNN—Captain S. M. Kennett, at St. Peters, from Galena, 1844.

LIGHT FOOT—In company with "Time and Tide" took excursion from St. Louis to Fort Snelling in 1845; Captain M. K. Harris, first boat at Galena from St. Louis April 20, 1847; at Galena Sept. 25, 1846.