Goin' West.....by Way of the River On the Shore Some of the pictures are large and will take awhile to download if you are using a dial-up modem. |
Sitting Bull's camp, Missouri River can be seen in background. |
Crews surveying the Missouri, aboard their living quarters (which aren't exactly 'on the shore,' but close enough! :-) |
A freight wagon ready to leave Fort Benton in the 1870's. |
Hotel wagon waits for guests outside of a hotel in Bismarck, Dakota Territory. |
Bellevue, a compound of traders' cabins and shorehouses near present-day Council Bluff, Iowa; painting by Karl Bodmer, 1810. |
Winter was a dull time for the trappers, traders and cowboys, who had to devise ways, such as the never-ending card game, to pass the time. |
Main Street, Vermillion, Dakota Territory. Between April and October, 1865, thirty-seven steamboats full of migrants (and hundreds more who came overland) traveled up the Missouri River and settled on the great central plains. |