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,[49]
CHAPTER VII.
Captain La Barge in “Opposition,”[59]
CHAPTER VIII.
The Missouri River,[73]
CHAPTER IX.
Kinds of Boats Used on the Missouri,[90]
CHAPTER X.
Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River,[115]
CHAPTER XI.
The Steamboat in the Fur Trade,[133]
CHAPTER XII.
Voyage of 1843,[141]
CHAPTER XIII.
Voyage of 1844,[154]
CHAPTER XIV.
Changed Conditions,[167]
CHAPTER XV.
Incidents on the River (1845–50),[177]
CHAPTER XVI.
Incidents on the River (1851–53),[189]
CHAPTER XVII.
Ice Break-up of 1856,[200]
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Head of Navigation Reached,[216]
CHAPTER XIX.
Fort Benton,[222]
CHAPTER XX.
Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri,[240]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. I.

Captain Joseph La Barge,[Frontispiece]
Facing page
Captain Joseph La Barge (when young),[1]
A New “Cut-off” in the River,[77]
Map of the Missouri River Channel,[79]
Snags in the Missouri River,[80]
The Indian Bullboat,[97]
Missouri River Keelboat,[102]
The First “Yellowstone,”[137]
Alexander Culbertson,[228]
Fort Benton Levee,[238]