1823-1870 MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT RIVERBOAT HISTORY PICS

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Steamboating On the Upper Mississippi
by
William J. Petersen

Packed with Mississippi River sternwheeler history!


COPYRIGHT: 1968 with 1968 on title page
PUBLISHER: State Historical Society of Iowa
PAGES: 575 pgs. measuring 6.5" x 9.5"
CONDITION: The book is in very nice condition with green cloth covers. Boards edges have minor wear and corner bumping. No hinge cracking inside or outside at neither the front nor back. All pages and covers are tight to the spine; no missing pages (verified). Closed book page edges are clean. No previous ownership marks, nameplates, inscriptions, etc.; no underlining or highlighting. A very tight, clean and solid book! No dustjacket. No odors.

Front and rear endpapers have 4 maps but 2 look the same to me so I'll list 3 different ones:
The Mississippi River: From descriptions by Beltrami on the Voyage of the Virginia, 1823
The Mississippi River
Locks and Dams in the Towboat Era

This book is more a saga than a book - tales of inter-city rivalries, of daring, profane skippers, and of river races fill the pages. It is first-rate Americana and describes the story of steamboating from the voyage of the Virginia in 1823 to the close of the immigration period around 1870. There are 48 well-written chapters, as well as copious notes and a good index. It is a first-rate account of steamboating on the upper Mississippi River by America's foremost authority on the side-wheeler. Any reader with a drop of Mississippi water in his veins will want to read this authoritative account of early life on the great river. 'Steamboating On the Upper Mississippi' was originally published in 1937 after ten years of extensive research and writing, during which time the author traveled 20,000 miles searching materials, reading newspaper files in river towns from St. Louis to St. Paul, combing through the US Steamboat Inspectors and Collector of Customs records between Dubuque ad Pittsburgh and consulting scores of books of travel and thousands of manuscripts. It received such warm reviews from both professional scholars and river authorities that the edition of 2,000 copies was shortly exhausted. This reprint contains two features that were not included in the 1st edition. The first feature is the addition of four 16-page pictorial inserts of photos of steamboats, bills of lading, old woodcuts and steel engravings. About 3/4 of these are from the author's personal collection. The second feature is the four decorative maps appearing on the end papers. A fascinating book filled with extensive factual material that is hard to find anywhere else.

CHAPTERS:
Mississippi: Great River
Veritas Caput: Itasca
Journey of the Waters
Under Four Flags
Fulton's Folly: A Mississippi Dream
Monopoly on the Mississippi
Flatboat Odyssey
Voyage of the New Orleans
Henry Miller Shreve
St. Louis: A Port of Call
Story of the Western Engineer
Voyage of the Virginia
The Indian and the Steamboat
To Treaty Grounds by Steamboat
Visiting the Great White Father
Transportation of Indian Annuities
Last Red Cargoes
Facts, Figures, Furs, and Buffalo Robes
Freight for Red River Oxcarts
Steamboats on Military Frontier
Wars and Rumors of War
Movement of Troops in Peace Times
Transportation of Supplies
Pigs of Lead
Fever River Settlement
Port of Galena
Steamboat Bonanzas
Race Horses in the Lead Trade
Rival Trade Routes
Catlin and the Fashionable Tour
West Newton vs. Die Vernon
Grand Excursion of 1854
Mid Pleasures on Palaces
Paths of Empire
They Crossed the Mississippi
On the Trail of the Immigrants
To the North Star State
Life on Deck and In the Cabin
Cabin and Deck Passage
Many Cargoes and Strange
Captain Joseph Throckmorton
Daniel Smith Harris: A Fighting Skipper
Race of the Grey Eagle
When Captains Ruled Like Kings
Opening of Navigation
Closing of Navigation
Ice Gorges and Winter Quarters
Namesakes of the Ojibway

Early Photos:
Centennial Celebration of steamboat navigation, Pittsburgh levee, 1911
Replica of steamboat New Orleans stops at Marietta, OH, 1911
The John A Scudder at New Orleans levee, 1878
The Henry Frank arrives at New Orleans, 1881, largest cotton cargo ever floated on one bottom
St Louis and Keokuk Packet Company: Jeannie Deans
Lucy Bertram
Rob Roy
Die Vernon (2nd)
Andy Johnson
Minnesota Packet to North Western Un. Packet: Gray Eagle at Galena levee
Daniel Smith Harris (captain who died when Grey Eagle wrecked on Rick Island Bridge, 1861
Itasca
2 historic envelopes ( postal covers ): Galena, Dubuque, Dunleight & Minnesota: Steamer Norther Light, Pres. Lodwick, Commander
Galena, Dubuque, Dunleight & Minnesota: Steamer Grey Eagle, Captain D. Smith Harris 3 steamboat stamp cancellations The Northern Line: The Burlington, sidewheeler
The Davenport, sidewheeler
The Muscatine, sidewheel packet
The Keokuk
The Clinton, steamboat
The Henry Clay, sidewheeler
The Sucker State, sidewheeler
The Red Wing, sidewheeler
2 historic envelopes ( postal covers ):
Northern Line Packet: Minneapolis
Northern Line Packet: Steamer Burlington Diamond Jo Line Steamers:
Joesph Reynolds (1819-1891)
The Lansing after boiler explosion at Hampton, Illinois, 1867
Diamond Jo Warehouse at Guttenberg
Interior view of cabin of the Quinty
Diamond Jo steamboat w/ 4 barges
Diamond Jo advertisement showing rail and city connections
Diamond Jo map showing steamboat landings, distances, population Steamboat Nomine at Galena: Port of Dubuque, 1850s
Steamboats at St. Louis levee, 1860s
Steamboat warehouses at Bellevue
East Dubuque warehouses in high water with steamer J.S. entering bridge
Main cabin of Grand Republic rebuilt from the Great Republic
Typical Upper Mississippi main cabin
William F Davidson (1825-1887)
Barrels of apples ready to ship on the St. Louis levee; Barrels of apples loaded on a steamer

Excursions: Leaving Clinton with 2 excursion barges in tow
Josephine and excursion barge
raftboat Musser
Phil Sheridan, Canada, Hawkeye State preparing to take on freight
The Minnesota
The Alex Mitchell
The Hawkeye State jammed with Iowa troops headed South
The Bill Henderson leaves Bellevue with Iowa Volunteers
Estes House at Keokuk, hospital for Union soldiers
Towboat Geo. M Verity, developed into a river museum by Lee County Historical Society
The Rhododendron, formerly the Omar, now a showboat with a small Mississippi River museum
Illustrations: Bills of Lading: 1844-1866 Steamboat White Cloud, Sept. 9, 1844
Steamboat Cecila, 1845
Steamboat Senator, 1848
Steamboat Dr. Franklin, 1849, 1853, 1853
Steamboat Alhambra, 1855, 1854, 1855
Steamboat Die Vernon, 1857
Steamboat Golden Era, 1859
Steamboat Landing, Clayton, 1854
Steamboat Northern Belle, 1854
Steamboat Canada and barge, 1866
Steamboat Grey Eagle, 1861 Great Fire of 1849 at St. Louis (Currier & Ives)
John Fitch's Philadelphia Boat, 1786
Robert Fulton's Clermont, 1807
The New Orleans, 1811
The Enterprise
The Washington, designed by Capt. Henry M Shreve, blew up1816
John Fitch's 1st steamboat trial trip, painting by Clyde O Deland, 1786
Zebulon M Pike, 1817
Western Engineer, 1819-20
View of Cincinnati, Queen City of the West
New Albany with Jeffersville, Indiana in view
New Orleans seaport
The Mississippi at New Orleans
The Levee at St. Louis
St. Louis sketch with Eads Bridge almost completed
Rock Island, Illinois
Davenport, Iowa
Shot Tower and bridges at Dubuque
Eagle Point, north of Dubuque
Levee at La Crosse
Queen's Bluff landmark
Chimney Rock near Fountain City Wisconsin
Approach to Trempealeau
Lake Pepin
Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin
St. Paul from Dayton's Bluff
Falls of Minnehaha
Minneapolis, St. Anthony and St. Anthony's Falls
The Robert E Lee - Natchez race of 1870
First and only Pilot's License granted to Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ), 1859
New Lucy (burning)
Advertisements: J. McKee; War Eagle; Golden Eagle; Keokuk Northern Line card
Front cover of sheet music: Tom Jasper Schottisch
Minnesota Packet to North Western Un. Packet: 3 Galena levee scenes: General Brooke • Saint Paul, West Newton, Minnesota, Ben Campbell • War Eagle, City Belle
Captain Harris's application for inspection of the Grey Eagle, 1859
Captain Joseph Truckmorton (1800-1872)
Steamboats line up along Widlam and Front Street in St Louis, 1840s
Steamboats at St. Louis levee, 1850s

Steamboat races: Robert E Lee vs. Natchez
Phil Sheridan vs. Hawkeye State Walk-in-the-Water
Fort Benton
Selkirk Colonists bring furs in on 2-wheeled oxcarts
Eagle 1841 advertisement
Robert Harris 1888 advertisement
The Governor's Greys and Jackson Guards leaving Dubuque, 1861
Departure of 'Great Mississippi Expedition' downstream from Cairo
Explosion of steamboat Sultana, 1865
Bombardment and capture of Island Number Ten, 1862
Hospital steamboat The Imperial taking wounded to St. Louis
Capture of Vicksburg, 1863, arrival of Admiral Porter's fleet
Arrival of steamboat Imperial at New Orleans from St. Louis, 1863
Vessels in the book: A L Shotwell • Addie Johnston • Adelaide Bell • Adelia • Admiral • Adventure • Agamemnon • Agnes • Alex Mitchell • Alexander Hamilton • Alhambra • Alice • Alpha • Amaranth • Amelia • Andy Johnson • Addie • Anson Northup • Anthony Wayne • Argo • Autocrat • Bannock City • Bayard • Belle Key • Belle of Memphis • Bellview • Belvidere • Ben Campbell • Ben Coursin • Ben Franklin • Bengal Tiger • Bill Henderson • Black Hawk • Black Rover • Bon Accord • Brazil • Burlington • Calhoun • Canada • Cavalier • Cecilia • Centennial • Challenge • Chieftain • Chippewa • Chippewa Falls • Chippewa Valley • City Belle • City of Memphis • City of St. Paul • Clarion • Clermont (boat) • Colonel Bomford (keelboat) • Columbia • Columbus, tonnage • Comet • Conewago • Constitution • Cora • Cremona • D A January • Danube • Davenport • Dayton • Decatur • Desmoine • Denmark • Diamond Jo • Die Vernon • Diligent • Dove • Dr. Franklin • Dr. Franklin No. 2 • Dubuque • Durant • Eagle • Eclipse • Emerald • Enterprise • Enterprize • Envoy • Equator • Essex • Etna • Excelsior • Expedition • Express, soldiers • Fanny Bullitt • Fanny Harris • Fanne Keener • Favorite • Fire Canoe • Fortune • Frank Steele • Free Trader • Fulton • G H Wilson • G W Spar-Hawk • Galena • Galenian • General Brooke • General Hamilton • General Neville • Genoa • Gladiator • Glasgow • Globe • Golden Era • Golden State • Great Mogul • Greek Slave • Grey Eagle • Hamburg • Hamilton • Hannibal • Harmonia • Hawkeye State • Helen Blair • Heliopolis (snagboat) • Henrietta • Henry Clay • Hermione • Heroine • Highland Mary • Highland Mary No. 2 • Highlander • Ida Fulton • Illinois • Independence • Indian Queen • Indiana • Ione • Iowa • Irene • Iron City • Itasca • J M White • Jacob Traber • James Ross • Jasper • Jeanie • Jefferson • Jennie Baldwin • Jennie Whipple • Jenny Lind • Jesuit Relations • Jo Daviess • John Adams • Johnson • Josephine • Julia Dean • Kate Cassel • Kate French • Kate Kearney • Keokuk • Key City • Key Stone • Key West • Knickerbocker • La Belle Riviere • La Crosse • Lady Franklin • Lady Pike • Lady Washington (barge) • Lamartine • Lansing • Lawrence • Lewis F Linn • Lexington • Lightfoot • Little Ben • Little Eagle • Little Rock • Loyal Hanna • Lucy Bertram • Luella • Lynx • Maid of Iowa • Maid of Orleans • Malta • Mandan • Mansfield • Martha No. 2 • Mayflower • Mechanic • Medora • Merchant • Messenger • Metropolitan • Mexico • Milwaukee • Minneapolis • Minnesota • Minnesota Belle • Missouri • Missouri Fulton • Mollie McPike • Monona • Monsoon • Montana • Montauk • Muscatine • Muskingum • Natchez • Navigator • New Brazil • New Orleans • New Orleans (second) • New St Paul • Niagara • Nimrod • Niota • Nominee • Northern Belle • Northern Light • Northwestern • Ocean Wave • O'Connell • Olive Branch • Omega • Ophelia • Orb • Osprey • Oswego • Otter • Palmyra • Pavilion • Pawnee • Pearl • Pembina • Peosta • Peytona • Phil Sheridan • Phoenix • Pike • Pilot • Pine Bluff • Pizarro • Planet • Posty Boy • Potosi • Powhatan (ocean steamer) • Prairie Bird • Pre-emption • Rambler • Red Rover • Red Wing • Relief • Rescue • Reserve • Resolute • Reveille • Revenue • Robert E Lee • Rock Island • Rock Island (keelboat) • Rocket • Rolla • Rosalie • Royal Arch • Rufus Putnam • St. Anthony • St Croix • St. Louis • St. Louis and Galena Packet • St. Paul • St Peter's • Sam Gaty • Sam Young • Saracen • Sarah Ann • Saucy Jack (keelboat) • Savanna • Savannah • Schuyler • Scioto • Sea-Horse (ocean steamer) • Senator • Shamrock • Shenandoah • Sioux City • Smelter • South Shore • Southern Belle • Spirit of St Louis • Spread Eagle • Sterling • Sucker State • Sultana • Sunnyside • Sutler • Temptest • Tiger • Tigress • Time • Time and Tide • Tishomingo • Tom Jasper • Uncly Toby • Valley Forge • Velocipede • Veritas Caput • Vesuvius • Veteran • Virginia • Volant • W H Denny • W L Ewing • W L Nelson • War Eagle • War Eagle (second) • Warrior • Waashington • Wave • West Newton • Western Engineer • William Wallace • Winnebago • Winnebago Chief • Wiota • Wisconsin • Wyoming • Yankee • Yellowstone • Zebulon M Pike

Items in the book are listed here to help you make a more informed decision about the book: Able, Daniel • Accidents, discussion • Aco, Michel, explorations • Agricultural implements, shipment • Albany NY, incident; immigrants • Algonquian nation, tribes • Allegheny Mountains • Allegheny River, early boats • Arsenal; transportation • Allen, 'James' • Alton IL • Alton Slough, winter quarters • American Fur Company, activities; posts; agents; investment in steamboats • Andrews, C C • Apples, shipment • Arkansas River • Arkansas River Packet Company • Armstrong, Curler • Armstrong, John • Assiniboine River, colony • Astor, John Jacob • Atchison, George W • Atchison, John, service, steamboat captain; wager • Atchison, Mark, service • Atkinson, Henry, command; boat invented • Atlantic cable, laying • Atlantic Ocean, crossing by steamship • Atwater, Caleb

Babcock, James F • Bacon, Leonard • Bad Axe River, battle; Indians along • Bailly, Alexis • Baird, James • Baird, Robert M, opinion; guide published • Baldwin, Thomas • Bancroft, George • Barges; cost; description; use • Barlow, Joel, Fulton’s letter • Barn Bluff MN • Barnum, Phineas T • Bateau, description • Bates, David G, fur trade permit • Bates, Edward • Bathrick, Abigail, marriage • Becknell, William • Bell, Edwin, • Bellefontaine MO • Bellevue • Beltrami, Giacomo C, explorations; description of Falls • Berkeley, Bishop George • Bersie, Hiram • Big Thunder (Indian chief) • Bills of lading • Bishop, Harriet E • Bixby, Mr., piloting of • Black Hawk; trip; capture; meeting with Andrew Jackson; imprisonment; war conducted; activities • Black Hawk Purchase • Black Hawk War, service of steamboats; effect on transportation; Daniel Smith Harris • "Black Republican flag" • Black River • Blair, Francis P, Jr • Blair, Walter • Blakeley, Russell; Indian removals described; service • Blegen, Theodore C; on name "Itasca"and widlam • Bliss, John • Bliss, John H • Block & McCune • Blondeau, Maurice • Bloomington (see Muscatine) • Boats, types; merchandise carried also Steamboats, Keelboats, and other boats • Bohemians, coming • Bois des Sioux River • Boone, Mayor • Boone, Daniel, pioneering • Boone, Nathan • Bouthillier, Francois • Boutwell, William T, Indian missionary • Bowles, Samuel • Boyd, Thomas A • Bradford, Captain • Brazil, excursion; description; destruction • Bremer, Fredrika, • Brisbois, B W • "Broadhorns" • Broken Arrow Slough • Brower, Jacob V • Brownsville PA, boatyard; Enterprise launched • Brunson, Reverend Alfred • Buchanan, James • Buffalo, Indian theory • Buffalo hides • Buffalo NY • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad • Buffalo River • Burbank and Company • Burlington; military supplies; excursions; crossing; population; Site; activities • Burlington Railroad • Burlington Telegraph • Bushwhacking • Butler, Captain

Cabin passage • Cabin passengers, food; names • Cairo IL • Calhoun, John C • California, population; reference; trips • Camp Kearny • Camp McClellan, Sioux at • Campbell, B H • Cannon River • Canoe, cost • Cantonment Jesup • Cap au Gris • Cape a l'Ail' Sauvage (Capoli Bluff)• Cape Girardeau • Cape Winebegos • Capoli Bluff • Captains, status; earning; activities • Cargoes • Carver, Jonathan, use of "Mississippi"; explorations; book; land granted; Carver’s Cave in honor • Carver’s Cave • Cass, Lewis • Cass Lake • Casse-Fusils, naming • Cassville Wisconsin • Catfish Creek, Fox village; Catlin at; excursionists • Catholic Institute of Dubuque• Catlin, George; paintings; scenes described; Indian performance before • Catlin, Mrs. George • Cattle • Cavileer, Charles, office • Chain of Rocks channel • "Channel of the Foxes" • Chariton, MO • Chateau Brilliante • Cheyenne American Fur Company • Chicago, IL; canal; newspaper editors; railroad connection; steamboat • Chicago and Rock Island Railroad • Chicago Convention • Chickasaw Bluffs, De Soto at • Chickasaw Indians • Chippewa Indians • Chippewa River • Chittenden, Hiram V • Choctaw Indians, removal of • Cholera, spread • Chouteau, B F • Chouteau, Pierre, Jr, boats owned • Cincinnati, Ohio population; New Orleans; description; immigrants; boats built; Scribe Harris • Cincinnati Gazette, • Circus, shipment by boat • Civil War, service of steamboats; effect on steamboat business; refugees • Clark, George Rogers, victory • Clark, James, service • Clark, William; characterization; Indian policy • Clarksville MO • Clemens, Samuel, activities • Clinton, De Witt • Coal, shipment • Coates, Sarah, marriage • Collector of Customs, boats enrolled • Collisions discussion • Columbia Fur Company, posts; supplies • Conception (Mississippi) River • Conemaugh River, transportation • Coon, Datus E, company • Coon Slough, ice • Corwith, Henry, boat owned • Cote sans Dessein MO • Coulter & Rogers • Council Bluffs, steamboat; post; transportation • Covered wagons • Cow Island • Cranberries • Crawford, John • Creek Indians, removal • Croffut, W A • Crooks, Ramsay • Crow Island, trading post • Crystal Palace Exhibition • Culbertson, Thomas • Culver, Captain • Culver, Alvah • Culver, John • Cumberland River • Cumberland Road • Cuyk, Abraham, contract

Dana, Charles A • Danube River, first steamboat • Davenport, George • Davenport, Indian trade; Indian prisoners; soldiers; steamboat arrivals; excursions; speeches; railroad; crossing • Davenport Public Museum • Davidson, William F, contract • Davidson’s White Collar Line • Davis, Jefferson • Dawley, Clerk • Day, William • Dayton’s Bluff • "Death’s-heads", battle • Deck passage, coat of; dangers • Decorah, immigrants • Deer, hunting • De Lassus, Carlos Dehault • Delisle, William, use of Mississippi • Des Moines Rapids • Des Moines River; Western Engineer at mouth; fort; transportation on • De Soto, Hernando • De Soto, site of • Detroit MI • Diamond Bluff • Diamond Jo Line, business • Dirt Lodge, trading post • Dix, John A • Dixon’s Ferry • Dodge, Henry, treaty negotiated; lead shipped • Dolterer, D H • Douglas, Stephen A • Dousman, Hercules L, treaty signed; data; correspondence; fur trade activities; boats owned; home • Dreisbach, Herr, circus • Dubuque, Julien; grant; lead mined by; death; grave • Dubuque; telegraph line; soldiers from; boats at; excursions; crossing; tonnage; immigrants; Trappist monks; cholera; apples shipped to; coal shipped; newspapers; railroads • Dubuque Express and Herald • Dubuque Gas Company • Dubuque Herald • Dubuque Reporter • Dubuque Tribune • Du Buque Visitor • Duncan, A L, legal services • Duncan’s Island • Dunleith, East Dubuque IL, shipment; tonnage; transportation to; steamboat • Durham boats, use • Dutch, coming to Iowa • Dwyer, Captain

Eaton, Benjamin • Eau Claire Wisconsin • Eastman, Captain • Eastman, Mrs. Mary H., book; "Itasca" explained • Edwards, Ninian • Elk Lake • "El Kader", community • Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth Fries, Galena described • Elsah • Emerson, Joseph, treaty signed • Emigrant companies, organization • Emigrant guides, publication • Emigrants, coming • Engineer Cantonment, Western Engineer • English, claims on Mississippi Valley; explorations • English Prairie, Wisconsin, passage • Erie Canal • Etuzepah, Indian chief • Excursions • Expeditions • Explosions

Factory system • Falls of St. Anthony; description; trips to • Falls of St. Croix, trading post • Falls of the Ohio • Faribault, Alexander • Faribault, Oliver • Farnam, Henry V, cup presented; position • Farnham, Russell • Farnsworth, J • Farrar, Amos • Fashionable Tour • Fast time records • Federal government, expeditions on Missouri River; steam craft used; steamboat constructed; supplies • Ferguson, William • Ferries, use • Ferryboat, damage • Fever River (Galena); traffic; fur trade; government mineral agent; lead production; settlement; name; post office established; shrinking; ice • Field, Cyrus V • Fillmore, Millard, on Grand Excursion; daughter of • Fink, Mike, keelboat character • Fire, forest, description • Fire equipment • "Fire nation" also Mascouten Indians • First United States Infantry • Fitch, John • Flag, raising in Iowa • Flatboat, description; cost; use • Flint, C Cather • Flint Hills, trading post • Floods, damage • Flora, removal of Indians • Florence, building of • Florida MO • Folsom, W H C • Food, shipment; preparation • Forbes, John Murray, opinion • Ford, Rufus • Ford, Thomas, • Forsyth, Thomas, work of • Fort Armstrong; treaty; location; supplies; celebration • Fort Atkinson, expedition; location; supplies; troops • Fort Benton, transportation • Fort Clark, Peoria IL • Fort Clarke, location • Fort Crawford, Virginia at; treaty; supplies for; painting of; troops • Fort Des Moines (second), location; supplies • Fort Edwards, Virginia at; description; location; supplies for • Fort Garry • Fort Gibson • Fort Lisa, Western Engineer at, • Fort Madison, ruins; erection; supplies; ice • Fort Osage • Fort Randall NE • Fort Ridgely • Fort Ripley • Fort St. Anthony; Virginia at; name • Fort Snelling, Schoolcraft; expeditions to; site; naming; incident; councils; Indians removed to; fur trade; steamboats; Red River Valley trade; supplies; mail; description; Indian Agency • Fort Winnebago • Fortress Monroe, Black Hawk • Fourth of July, excursions • Fowle, John • Fox Indians: village; massacre; treaty; delegation at Washington; lead mines • Fox River • Franklin MO • Franz Siegel, winter quarters • Freight barge • Freight rates, on steamboats; on overland routes • Fremont, John C • French, Daniel, Comet launched by • French, explorations; immigration • Frontier, record; officers • Fuller, Hiram, writings • Fulton, Robert; plan for Mississippi navigation; description; comment on Clermont; letter on steamboat monopoly; steamboat company formed • Fulton-Livingston monopoly, formation; breaking of • "Fulton’s Folly" • Fur trade, profits to steamboats; centers; comment of Atwater; routes; in Red River Colony; characters; value • Fur trading posts • Furs, transportation

Gabbert, William H • Galena IL: Black Hawk; steamboats; trade; lead mines; government mineral agent; land sold; population; telegraph line; soldiers from; naming; position as port; description; newspaper; railroad; decline; home of Grant; visit of Jenny Lind; hot weather; excursions; accident; transportation; history • Galena, Dubuque, Dunleith, and Minnesota Packet Company • Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, also North Western Railroad • Galena Gazette • Galena River, see Fever River • Gautier, Antoine, fur trade • Gear, H H • Germans, coming; attitude of • Gerry, Elbridge • Giard, Basil, grant • Gibbons vs. Ogden, decision • Gibson, George • Gillette, Mrs. Irene • Glasgow, Shaw & Larkins • Glass, Hugh • Gleim, E H • Goodhue, James M • Goodhue County MN • Gorman, William P • Governor’s Greys, transportation • Graham, James D • Grain, transport • Grand Excursion of 1854 • Grand Marais • Grand Rapids • Grand Tower • Grand Western Canal • Grande Prairie Mascotin • Granger, John A • Grant, Robert, encounter with Winnebago; Grant County named • Grant, Ulysses S • Grant Cote, • Grant County WI • Grant Park, entrance • Gratiot, Henry • Gray, R C. • Great Eagle (Indian chief) • Great Encampment • Great Lakes • Great Lakes cities, trade routes to • "Great Medicine" • Greeley, Horace • Green, Asa Barlow • Green, Montreville, services • Green Bay; trade; military post • Greenwich Village, Clermont at • Gregg, Josiah • Griffey, David • Griffth, Thomas H, steamboats • Grimes, James W • Groseilliers, Medard, explorations • Grosse Island, patients • Guerrillas, attack • Guttenberg; excursion

Hale, Charles • Hale, Edward Everett • Half-breed Tract • Hall, Lieutenant • Hall, Basil • Hall, Dominick A, ruling • Hall, James • Hamilton, Alexander, son • Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler • Hamilton, William S, father; wager • Hannibal MO; excursions; crossing; Samuel Clemens • Harris, Abigail, family • Harris, Daniel Smith, characterization; service as steamboat captain; records; improvements; race; profits; birth; daughter; marriage; death • Harris, Mrs. Daniel Smith • Harris, Electa, marriage • Harris, Jackson • Harris, James, son of • Harris, James Meeker • Harris, Martin Keeler • Harris, Robert Scribe, steamboat improvements; boat owned • Harris, Scribe (see Harris, Robert Scribe) • Harris, Smith (see Harris, Daniel Smith) • Harrison, William Henry, farm • Hastings MN • Hay, shipment • Hayden, Peter • Helen Blair, cabin • Helena WI, shot tower near; passage • Hempstead, William; boat owned • Hempstead and Beebe, boats owned • Hennepin, Louis, use of "Meschasipi" by; Falls named • Herculaneum shot tower • Holland, immigrants from • Hollidaysburg PA, immigrants • Holmes, Reuben • Holstrom, E W • Hone, Philip • Hooper, William H • Horses, use • Houghton, Douglas • Howard, Mrs. Joe • Hubbard, Henry, meeting • Hudson, Charles • Hudson River, steamboats • Hudson’s Bay Company • Hughlett, John G • Hunt, Wilson Price • Hutchinson, Abe

Icarian Community • Ice, dangers; shipment; obstruction; forming • Illinois Central Railroad • Illinois-Lake Michigan Canal • Illinois River • Immigrant trails • Immigrants, transportation • Imported trade goods, costs • Indian annuities, transportation by steamboats; first payment; value • Indian councils • Indian treaties, steamboats; negotiation; Cost; troop escorts • Indiana, admission; population; emigrants; route • Indians, goods for; cost of shipping goods; attitude toward steamboats; treaties; removal by steamboat; delegations; lead mined; portraits; activities • Iowa, emigrants; Civil War soldiers from; population; activities; route; population; livestock • Iowa Indians, • Iowa River • Irish • Itasca Lake, discovery; description; outlet; expedition; name • Itasca State Park, celebration Jack, Andrew • Jackson, Andrew; steamboats employed; meeting with Black Hawk • January, Thomas H • Jefferson, Thomas • Jefferson Barracks, Black Hawk at; position • Jesuit Relations, "Messipi" River • Jesup, Thomas S • Jo Daviess County IL, soldiers from; lead in • Johns, S J • Johnson, James, contracts; charges; mention • Johnstown PA, route • Joliet, Louis • Jones, George W

Kaposia MN • Kaskaskia Indians • Kate Catsel, government service • Kate Kearney, soldiers; conditions • Kearny, Stephen Watts, account of Western Engineer • Keating, William H., expedition led • Keelboatmen, types • Keelboats, speed; description; use; disadvantages; cost of freight; transport of troops; time made by; names; towing by steamboats • Keeler, Martin, service • Kentucky, emigrants from; newspaper; immigrants; resident • "Kentucky boats" also Flatboats • Keokuk (Indian chief) • Keokuk, dam; steamboat; encampment; position in Civil War; war hospitals; excursions; crossing; rapids near; residents; ice • Keokuk, profits • Keokuk Packet Company, decline; line; profits • Keosauqua, dam near • "Key City" ( also Dubuque) • Kimball, Moses • King, John H • Kingsbury, James W • Kingston (Ontario), transportation; residents • Kinzie, John H, activities • Kittson, Norman W • Koehler & Brothers

La Barge, Joseph • "La Biche" (Elk) Lake, also Itasca Lake • La Crosse WI, references; railroad; crossing; collision near; fare; residents; steamboat • Lafferty, James • Laframboise, Joseph • "La Garde" River • Lake Cayuga, steamboats • Lake City MN, ferry • Lake Erie, transportation • Lake Hernando de Soto, elevation • Lake Julia • Lake Michigan • Lake Ontario, transportation • Lake Peosta, ice • Lake Pepin, ceremony; description; Grand Excursion; storms; steamboat on; ice; transportation • Lake St. Croix • Lake Traverse • Lake Winnebagoshish, explorers • Lambert, David, death • "Land of the sky blue water" • Land’s End, location • Langworthy, Edward • Langworthy, Lucius • Langworthy, Sarah M, marriage • Lanman, Charles, arrival • Lansing, survey near; fate • La Prairie aux Ailes (Winona), Virginia at • La Salle, Robert Caveliet • Latrobe, Lydia (Mrs. Nicholas Roosevelt) • Laughton, William H, courage; service • Law, John • Lea, Luke • Leach Lake, trading post • Lead, transportation; freight rates; trade routes; mining • Lead mines (Galena-Dubuque), Petrot; Dubuque; location; history; operation; government supervision; production; bet on; steamboat trips • Lead trade, profits; comparison with fur trade

Leaf Lake, trading post • Leavenworth, Henry • Leavenworth, Cantonment, troops • Le Claire, Buffalo Bill; Virginia; winter quarters • Lee, Robert E, rapids surveyed • Lee County, Spanish grant • Leech Lake, discovery • Levens, Tom • Lewis, Meriwether • "Lighting" • Liguest, Pierre Laclede • Lincoln, Abraham • Lind, Jenny • Lindbergh, Charles A • Linn, William • Lisa, Manuel • Little Crow’s Village • Livestock, shipment • Livingston, Edward • Livingston, John B • Locomotives • Ladwick, Kennedy • Lodwick, M. W • Lodwick, Preston • Log canoe, cost • Long, Stephen H, on Western Engineer; report; expedition • Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, steamboat christened • Louisiana, boundaries; admission; monopoly of Mississippi granted; population • Louisiana MO • Louisiana Purchase • Louisville KY, population; New Orleans; supplies; tonnage; immigrants; shipments from • Lovers’ Leap, also Maiden Rock • Low water, influence on freight rates • Lower Mississippi River

McCormack, Preston Lodwick • McCune, John S • McGregor, Spanish grant; soldiers; crossing; immigrants; activities; fare; steamboats • McKee, Redick • McKenny, J H • Mackinaw boats • McLeod, Martin, • McMaster, S W • McNeil, George • McNeil, John • Machinery, shipment • Macomb, John N, work • Maiden Rock WI • Mail, transportation by steamboat • Mai-Pock • Mankato MN: Indians removed • Mann, Alice • Manny, J P, farm machinery • Marais d’Oge; Marais Dosier Slough • Marcpee (Indian), incident • Mark Twain, early home; writings; also Clemens, Samuel • Marquette, Pierre • Marryat, Frederick • Marshall, John, decision • Mascouten Indians, village • Massachusetts, emigrant company; resident • May, James, career • Meeker, James, service • Meeker, Moses, colony • Memphis TN • Menard, Pierre, commission • Mendota MN: treaty; fur trade • Menominee Indians • Merchandise, shipment • Merrick, George • "Meschasipi" (Mississippi) • Mexican War, service of steamboats • Miami Indians • Michigan canal, transportation • Mico (Mississippi) River • Middleton, W • Military posts, erection; dependence on steamboats; inspection tours; troops and supplies transported • Military supplies, transport by steamboat; value • Miller, Reuben, Jr • Milwaukee WI, trade route; railroad • Milwaukee and La Crosse Railroad, completion to Mississippi • Miner’s Journal (Galena) • Misinehaha Falls, excursions • Mintteiska, excursion • Minnesota, Carver land grant; forts; population; route; trip; livestock shipped; Governor; conditions; resident; visitors • Minnesota, Territory • Minnesota Historical Society, celebration at Itasca • Minnesota Packet Company, contract to remove Indians; organization; D S Harris with; steamboats; excursion; activities; clerk; member; operation • Minnesota River, first account; importance • Mississippi Bubble • Mississippi River, names; uses; search for source; divisions; historical significance; skiff riding; changes in sea level; age; mileage; tributaries; exploration; account by Marquette; steamboating plan; snagboat; scenes along; freezing; survey; importance in Civil War; movement for improvement; railroad; crossings; emigrants; ferries; transportation; settlements; ice; meaning of name • Mississippi Valley, features; exploration; claims of countries; American possession; fertility • Missouri, exploration; admission; resident; population; migration • Missouri Fur Co • Missouri Indians, delegation • Missouri River, Upper Mississippi limits; course; discharge; steamboats; Indian councils; annuities brought; fur trade; incident; transportation; trade • Missouri State Fair, excursion • Monongahela River, early boats; steamboat centennial • Montfort, A C • Montreal, transportation; immigrants; residents • Morehouse, D B • Morehouse, Le Grand • Marcy, Samuel • Morgan (Indian chief) • Morgan, Willoughby • Mormon Temple, building • Mountain of the Grange • Muir, Samuel C • Murray, Charles Augustus, visit to Upper Mississippi • Muscatine, refugees; steamboat; excursions; editor; emigrant agent; residents; ice; winter quarters Nanabozho, Indian legend • Napoleon • Natchez TN • Natchitoches LA • Nauvoo IL; immigrants; temple • Navigation, opening; closing • Nebraska, population • Neil, E D • Neutral Ground • New Albany, tonnage • New Boston Bay, winter quarters • New England, residents • New Madrid MO; earthquake; New Orleans • "New Orleans" • New Orleans Crescent, suit against • New Sweden, founding • New Ulm MN, massacre • Newhall, Horatio • Newhall, John B • Newman, John • Niagara, post • Nicolet, Jean, exploration • Nicolet, J N, exploration; tribute to Schoolcraft; treaty • North Western Railroad • Northern Line Packet Co, contract for removal of Indians; troops transported; business decline; operation; competition • Northern Oufit • Northup, Anion • Northwestern Packet Company, rates • NW Union Packet Company • Norway, emigrants

O’Connor, Patrick, execution • Ohio, population; emigrants • Ohio River, early boats; villages • Ohio Steamboat Navigation Co • Ojibway Indians, land; namesakes; Mississippi named • Oliphant, Lawrence • Omaha NE, steamboat • Omushkos Sagaeigun (Elk Lake) • Orleans Territory • Oskaloosa, emigrants • Oto Indians, delegation • Ottawa Indians • Owens, John P • Oxcarts • Ozawindib, Indian Guide

Packets, use • Painted Rock • Painter, Captain • Palmer, Strange M • Parker, J W • Parker, Joel • Parker, Nathan H • Passamaquoddy Indians • Patroon Debuts • Patterson, Robert • Paulding, James K • Peck, James • Peck, John M • Pella, settlement • Pemberton, James, steamboat • Pembina, settlement • Pendergast, William W • Pennsylvania Canal • Perrin, I • Perrot, Nicolas, forts built by; exploration; lead mining • "Pest boat: • Philadelphia PA • Philleo, Addison • Piankashaw Indians • Piasa Bluff, description • Piasa Rock • Pier, Phil, saloon • Pike's Peak, IA • Pike, Zebulon M, exploration • Pilots • Pinckard, P M • Pine River • Pioneers • Pirogue • Pittsburgh PA: population; boatyard; steamboat centennial; barge line; military post; transportation; Joseph Throckmorton • Platteville powder mills • Plumbe, John Jr • Poinsett, Joel R • Point Boss WI • Pomme de Terre Prairie • Pond, Gideon • Pond, Peter, fur trading • Pond, Samuel W • Portage des Sioux • Porter, David D • Porter Jeremiah • Potatoe Prairie • Potosi • Potawatomi Indians • Prairie des Liards • Prairie du Chien, Indian treaty; steamboat; Black Hawk; Indians removed; fur trade • Prairie du Chien, Hudson, and St. Paul Packet Co • Prescott WI • Prime W C • Prophet (Indian)

Quebec, immigrants, steamboat • Quincy IL

Raccoon Fork, fort • Raccoon River • Races • Radisson, Pierre Esprit • Raeder, Ole Munch • Railroads: effect on steamboat revenue; significance to Mississippi Valley • Ramsey, Alexander • Rapids, dangers, effect on size of boats; improvement • Read, James • Read's Landing • Red Cedar, also Cass Lake • Red Lake, trading post • Red River Colony: establishment; income; trade • Red River of the North, Indians around; settlement; trade; hunters • Red River raft, removal • Red Wing, Indian chief • Red Wing MN • Redwood Indian Agency • Reeder, D F • Regan, John • Reilly, Robert A • Reynolds, John • Reynolds, Joseph • Rice, Dan • Ringling, A J • 'Robber barons" • Robert, Louis • Robidoux, Joseph, St. Joseph founded • Rock Island IL • Rock River • Rock Roe • Rockingham Slough • Rockwell, John A • Rolette Joseph • Rolling Stone Creek • Roosevelt, Nicholas J • Roosevelt, Mrs. Nicholas J • Roosevelt, Theodore • Ross, Charles • Rumsey's Landing • Ryan, 'Rocky' • Rynning, Ole

Sac Prairie, WI • Safety barges • St. Anthony MN • St. Anthony Falls • St. Charles MO • St. Cloud MN • St. Croix River • St. Croix Valley, Indian claim; first mill • St. Joseph MO, founding • St. Lawrence River • St. Louis, MO: Pike at; Lewis and Clark; population; historical events; trading post; newspaper; post office; church; school system begun; Bank of Missouri; steamboats; first ocean steamer; Indian trade; Black Hawk; fur trade; war news; military supplies; expeditions; excursion; fair; railroad; pioneers; crossing; packets; grain; lead; ice; telegraph line • St. Paul MN: Indian trade; fur trade; Red River Valley trade; government trade; description; Grand Excursion; railroad; boats; livestock; residents; telegraph; navigation • St Peter's MN • St. Vrain, Mrs. Felix • Sandbars • Sandy Lake • Sanitation • Sargent, Epes • Sauk Indians • Saukenuk • Sault Ste. Marie • Saunders, John • Savanna IL • Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe • Schoolcraft Island • Schouler William • Scotch settlement • Scott, Dred, owner • Scott, Winfield • Scribe, Robert • Sedgwick, Catherine M • Selkirk, Earl of • Selkird Colony • Seminole Indians • Seventh Iowas Volunteer Infantry • Seward, William H • Seymour, E S • Sheffield and Farnam • Shilito & Co • Shot tower, Wisconsin River; erection; at Herculaneum MO • Shreve, Henry Miller, steamboat monopoly broken by; biographical data; Shreveport; barge service; profits; Steamboat inventions; achievements; death • Shreveport LA • Shull, Jesse W • Sibley, Henry Hastings • Simbley's Landing • Silliman, Benjamin • Sioux Indians: land granted to Carver; fur trade; encampment; delegation; council with; uprising; removal; treaty • Sioux Outfit • Skiff, flat-bottomed • Skunk River • Smith, Orrin • Snagboat, construction; Snelling, Colonel Josiah • Soulard, James G • South West Co • Spencer, R M • Stafford Western Emigration Co • Stambaugh, Samuel C • Stanchfield, Daniel, lumberman • Starr, Courtland • Ste. Genevieve MO, settlement • Steam whistle • Steamboat engines • Steamboat monopoly • Steamboating: beginnings; prophecy; monopoly; popularization by Shreve; development; dangers in war times; discomforts; account by Marryat; profits • Steamboats: invention; record times; cylinders; engines; use in government service; barroom; mail; trade; numbers on western waters; 'Tea Pot Dome; case; attitude of Indians; importance in Indian relations; profits; traffic in Red River Valley trade; use on military frontier; use on scientific expeditions; use in war times; decline; revival; troops transported; accidents; use in lead trade; tonnage; safety barges; competition; records; bands; passenger accommodations; racing • Steele, Franklin • Steele's Point • Stephenson, James W • Stevens, Isaac I • Stevens John • Stillman's Run • Stillwater, MN • Stockholm WI • Stratton, Levi W • Street, Joseph M • Sturgeon Lake • Sully, General Alfred • Susquehanna River • Swedes • Swiss, settlement • Sycamore chain

Taft, William Howard • Talcott, Andrew • Taliaferro, Lawrence • Tamaliseu River • Tampa Bay, De Soto at • Tapatu River • Tariff law of 1829 • Taylor, Sarah Knox • Taylor, Zachary • Telegraph • Ten Eyck, J C • Tennessee Insurance Co • Tesson, Louis Honore • Tetes des Morts Creek • Thomas, Marting • Thompson, Eleazar • Throckmorton, Joseph • Thundering (Grand) Rapids • Tilden, Samuel J • Todd, George • Trade routes, rivalry • Transient steamboats • Trappist monks • Traverse des Sioux • Tremont House, Chicago • Trempealeau WI • Troops • Turkey River • Twining, A C

United States Arsenal • Upper Iowas River • Upper Mississippi River • Upper Mississippi Valley • Upper Rapids

Vanmatre, A P • Vermilion Slough • Vicksburg MS • Volga Valley

Wabasha, Indian chief • Wabasha, MN • Waggoner, Isaac Newton • Wahkoota, Indian chief • Walachians • Wapsipinicon River • Ware of 1812 • Ward, James • Ward's Island • Wars, steamboats in • Washington DC, Indian delegations • Washington Guards • Webb, Captain • Weed, Thurlow • Welland Canal • Wellington, William E • Wentworth, W A • West Diggings • Wharf boat • Wheeling WV • Whiskey, shipment • White Beaver • White Collar Line • Whitney, Daniel • Whitten, David • Wilcox, Joseph B • Wile Life Refuge • Wilkins, William • Wilson, George H • Winnebago Indians • Winnebagoshish Lake • Winneshick Bottoms • Winona, MN • Wisconsin, Carver land grant • Wisconsin Heights, battle • Wisconsin River • Wood, B F • Wood, John • Wood, William • Wood, shipment • Wood and Barclay Co • Worden, Jones

Yager, Dick • 'Yellow Hills' • Yellow River • Yellowhead • Yellowstone River • Young, Captain • Younger, Col

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