Rivers of America: The Missouri

by Stanley Vestal, Getlar Smith (Illustrator), Jonathan Waterman (Foreword by)

Overview

The Missouri was the river of Lewis and Clark, of Manuel Lisa, General Ashley, and other organizers of the fur trade; of such noted travelers as George Catlin, Henry R. Schoolcraft, and Prince Maximilian; of a host of adventurous steamboat captains; of explorers like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, and Frémont; of doughty hunters and trappers like Hugh Glass, Jim Bridger, and John Colter. Stanley Vestal's rollicking story of one of America's most fabled waterways presents western history on a grand scale, one that. according to the New York Times, "anyone remotely interested in the American West will read."



"Vestal takes the Big Muddy as the central character in an intriguing story.. .. It is always readable, always informative."—Los Angeles Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493040100
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	392
Sales rank:	1,065,681
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Stanley Vestal (August 15, 1887 – December 25, 1957) was an American writer, poet, biographer, and historian, perhaps best known for his books on the American Old West, including Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Reconnaissance 5

Highway

I The Father of Navigation 11

II Missouri Marathon 18

III Steamboat 'Round the Bend 34

IV Long's Dragon 50

V Princess of the Missouri 59

VI The Big Muddy 66

VII Beaver Tails and Wild Honey 73

Boundary

VIII The Mormon Migration 85

IX Diving for Furs 98

X Hell on the Border 106

XI Kaycee 123

XII Ak-Sar-Ben 130

XIII Chief Blackbird and Sergeant Floyd 139

XIV The Petrified Man 149

XV Range and Grange 162

Outpost

XVI Mountain Men 183

XVIII Four Bears 204

XIX Custer and Comanche 219

XX Ghost Dance 226

XXI The Missouri River Women 243

XXII The Little Missouri 259

XXIII Fort Union 267

XXIV The Great Dam 278

XXV Honeymoon Cruise 285

XXVI White Castles 292

XXVII Chief Joseph's Last Battle 299

XXVIII Gypsies of the Upper River 311

XXIX Great Falls 316

XXX The Gates of the Mountains 322

XXXI Three Forks 330

Notes 335

Acknowledgments 345

Bibliography 349

Index 355