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STEAMBOATS FOR THE MISSOURI RIVER

 

BELLEVUE (Nebraska) GAZETTE. Feb. 26, 1857. "Steamboats For the Missouri River".

The following list of steamboats will run on the Missouri River during the season of 1857:

1. ADMIRAL -- Baker
2. AMAZON -- Chouteau
3. AUSTRALIA -- Welton
4. F. X. AUBREY -- Ben Gleim
5. CAMILLE - John Shaw
6. CARRIER -- Postal
7. CATARACT -- Able
8. A. B. CHAMBERS -- Gorley
9. J. M. CONVERS -- Bowman
10. DAVID TATUM -- Benton
11. EDINBURGH -- Able
12. EMIGRANT -- Terrell
13. EMMA -- James Yore
14. FONTENELLE -- Barry
15. A. C. GODDIN -- Ivers
16. HANNIBAL -- Hazlet
17. KATE HOWARD -- Joseph Nanson
18. KEYSTONE -- Goddin
19. J. H. LUCAS --Silvers
20. MONONGAHELA -- Cox
21. MORNING STAR -- Brierly
22. NEW LUCY -- Conley
23. E. A. OGDEN -- Bissell
24. OMAHA -- Wineland
25. POLAR STAR -- Dix
26. W. H. RUSSEL -- Kinney
27. SILVER HEELS -- Barrow
28. ST. MARY -- Cobbel
29. STAR OF THE WEST -- Ohlman
30. SULTON -- McCloy
31. T. E. TUTT -- Dozier
32. D. G. TAYLOR -- Reeder
33. JOHN WARNER -- Patterson
34. WILLIAM CAMPBELL -- Eads

The following gentlemen will each have a boat. Names not known. They will be built expressly for that trade:
Charles Baker, John Baldwin, Cheever, Cooper, Draffen, Joseph Holland, Ben Johnson, Oglesby, Throckmorton, Pat Yore -- Scissored from the St. Joseph Gazette
 

       

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