{"product_id":"steamboats-west-lawrence-h-larsen-9780870623851","title":"Steamboats West: The 1859 American Fur Company Missouri River Expedition","description":"In 1859, the American Fur Company set out on what would then be the longest steamboat trip in North American history--a headline-making, 6,200-mile trek along the Missouri River from St. Louis to Fort Benton in present-day Montana, and back again. Steamboats West is an adventure story that navigates the rocky rapids of the upper Missouri to offer a fascinating account of travel to the raw frontier past the pale of settlement. It was a venture that extended trade deep into the Northwest and made an enormous stride in transportation.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the journals of Dr. Elias Marsh and Charles Henry Weber and the official accounts of Charles P. Chouteau and Capt. William Franklin Raynolds, who traveled aboard the steamboats \u003ci\u003eSpread Eagle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChippewa\u003c\/i\u003e, authors Lawrence H. Larsen and Barbara J. Cottrell weave together firsthand accounts of the river journey with helpful commentary. Along the way, they interject the river's environmental history and portraits of the Native peoples who lived along the upper Missouri. Marsh and Weber remark on everything from the Montana landscape to mosquitoes to Mandan villages, and Weber's never-before-published journal illustrates the recent technological changes that made their voyage possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years after the Lewis and Clark expedition and before the Civil War, steamboats were crucial in establishing commercial water routes in the inland West. Larsen and Cottrell's depiction of this one celebrated ride brings steamboat transport back to life as modern, fast, and imposing--an apt symbol of the westward expansion that spawned it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara J. Cottrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870623850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870623851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur H. Clark Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 55","brand":"Lawrence H. Larsen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44063444730111,"sku":"9780870623851","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_557fe289-911e-4788-a0c5-1a3255f70d8f.jpg?v=1685389590","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/steamboats-west-lawrence-h-larsen-9780870623851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}