The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West by Annaliese Corbin

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The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West Annaliese Corbin
Page: 157
ISBN: 9781585445165
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

In July 1882, the steamboat Red Cloud hit a snag near Fort Peck, Montana, and settled into the bed of the Missouri River with a full cargo. The flagship of I. G. Baker & Company, it had served as an agent of change in the West through which it traveled. The Red Cloud was a symbol—and a source—of the trading company's success. This stern-wheeled, wooden-hulled packet boat carried both cargo and passengers on a "floating palace." When it sank five years later, though, the transcontinental railroad was already displacing the steamboat as the preferred way to transport both people and cargo. The first book to view the development of the Canadian Rockies ... MORE EBOOKS:
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