Review of The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud, or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West By Annalies Corbin

• Main Author: Robison, Ken
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2007
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Northwest Territories; Canada; St. Louis; Steamboat
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1447; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/2446/viewcontent/BR_Robison.pdf

From St. Louis to Fort Benton, the Missouri River served as a natural highway into the vast North American West. The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud extends our understanding of the upper Missouri during the decisive period of settlement and trade in the steamboat era from 1859 to the arri...