Goin' West.....by Way of the River



Steamboats

These photos are large and will take awhile to download if you are using a dial-up modem.
The Rosebud on the Missouri River;
drawing by D. F. Barry, done between 1874 - 1890
Passengers wait to board, Bismarck, Dakota Territory, 1877.
The Silver Bow on the Missouri River, 1869.
The Farwest, with a fresh load of wood stacked for the next leg of her journey; picture at left, Grant Marsh, The Farwest's captain. 
The side-wheeler, DeSmet, stops to pick up enough fallen timber to get her to the next woodyard.
The Pacific, one of the larger steamboats; it came complete with a barbershop!
Most western steamers weren't so lavish.
The Benton, built to run the upper Missouri, docked at Bismarck, Dakota Territory in 1877.
U.S. Mailboat, Minnie H, arrives at a
port in the Dakotas in the 1880's.
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