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The Conquest of the Missouri; Being the Story of the Life and Exploits of Captain Grant Marsh

by Joseph Mills Hanson

Published 1 February 2003

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.