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The Far West continued to carry freight and passengers on the upper Missouri and Yellowstone, and she continued to set records. In 1881, the Missouri River was so high that the arrival of river boats coming up river was delayed. The Far West was the first boat to reach Fort Benton that year. However, due to the high water it did not arrive ...
Pages in category "Steamboats of the Missouri River" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The steamboat Yellowstone (sometimes Yellow Stone) was a side wheeler steamboat built in Louisville, Kentucky, for the American Fur Company for service on the Missouri River. By design, the Yellowstone was the first powered boat to reach above Council Bluffs, Iowa , on the Missouri River achieving, on her maiden voyage, Fort Tecumseh , South ...
The Montana was a Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat, one of three "mega-steamboats" (along with its sister boats the Wyoming and the Dakota) built in 1879 at the end of the steamboat era on the Missouri—when steamboats were soon to be supplanted by the nation's expanding railroad network. [1]
The spine of the wreckage breaches the river’s surface, drawing visitor attention. Steamboat that sunk over a century ago eerily reappears during Missouri River drought Skip to main content
After the development of railroads, passenger traffic gradually switched to this faster form of transportation, but steamboats continued to serve Mississippi River commerce into the early 20th century. A small number of steamboats are still used for tourist excursions in the 21st century. Delta Queen at Paducah, Kentucky, 2007.
Only since 1859 had steamboats been traveling up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. When gold was found at the Alder Gulch claim in Montana in 1863, streams of hopeful prospectors migrated to the area from other states, creating one of the most prosperous frontier cities, Virginia City. Within a year of the find, more than ...
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.