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The Mackinaw boat is a loose, non-standardized term for a light, open sailboat or rowboat used in the interior of North America during the fur trading era. Within this term two different Mackinaw boats evolved: one for use on the upper Great Lakes , and the other for use on the upper Missouri River and its principal tributaries.
At the junction of the Greenbrier and New Rivers they engaged one of the boats used in running the rapids. This boat was twenty-five feet (7.62 m) long by six feet (1.83 m) wide, and was managed by three negroes,—the "steersman", who guided the boat with a long and powerful oar; the headsman, who stood on the bow to direct the steersman by ...
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Joseph Marie LaBarge [a] (October 1, 1815 – April 3, 1899) was an American steamboat captain, most notably of the steamboats Yellowstone, and Emilie, [b] that saw service on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, bringing fur traders, miners, goods and supplies up and down these rivers to their destinations.
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From 1810 to 1830, American fur traders on the tributaries of the Missouri regularly built boats eighteen to thirty feet long, using the methods of construction employed by the Native Americans in making their circular boats. These elongated bull boats were capable of transporting two tons of fur down the shallow waters of the Platte River. [1]