The Conquest of the Missouri; Being the Story of the Life and Exploits of Captain Grant Marsh: Being the Story of the Life and Exploits of Captain Grant Marsh (Frontier Classics S.)

by Joseph Mills Hanson

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After beginning his career as a 12-year-old riverboat deckhand, Grant Marsh went on to serve with the Federal Mississippi River flotilla during the Civil War. He began piloting the Missouri River in 1873, and was the most popular steamboat captain when the army hired his Far West for the duration of the Great Sioux War.
  • ISBN10 1149332697
  • ISBN13 9781149332696
  • Publish Date 13 May 2010 (first published 1 February 2003)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Nabu Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 544
  • Language English