IV AMERICAN EXPLORERS SERIES =Early Steamboating on Missouri River= _VOL. II._ [Illustration: KENNETT MCKENZIE] HISTORY OF EARLY STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION ON THE MISSOURI RIVER LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH LA BARGE PIONEER NAVIGATOR AND INDIAN TRADER FOR FIFTY YEARS IDENTIFIED WITH THE COMMERCE OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY BY HIRAM MARTIN CHITTENDEN _Captain Corps of Engineers, U. S. A._ AUTHOR OF “AMERICAN FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST,” “HISTORY OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,” ETC. _WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS_ IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. NEW YORK FRANCIS P. HARPER 1903 COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY FRANCIS P. HARPER. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER XXI. THE CIVIL WAR, 249 CHAPTER XXII. GOLD IN MONTANA, 265 CHAPTER XXIII. INCIDENTS ON THE RIVER (1862–67), 277 CHAPTER XXIV. LA BARGE AGAIN IN OPPOSITION, 287 CHAPTER XXV. VOYAGE OF 1863--THE TOBACCO GARDEN MASSACRE, 298 CHAPTER XXVI. THE BLACKFOOT ANNUITIES, 315 CHAPTER XXVII. COLLAPSE OF THE LA BARGE-HARKNESS OPPOSITION, 324 CHAPTER XXVIII. CAPTAIN LA BARGE IN MONTANA, 331 CHAPTER XXIX. CAPTAIN LA BARGE IN WASHINGTON, 340 CHAPTER XXX. THE INDIAN OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY, 351 CHAPTER XXXI. THE ARMY ON THE MISSOURI, 365 CHAPTER XXXII. THE STEAMBOAT IN THE INDIAN WARS, 382 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE PEACE COMMISSION OF 1856, 394 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN SPEAR, 408 CHAPTER XXXV. THE BATTLE WITH THE RAILROADS, 417 CHAPTER XXXVI. LAST VOYAGES TO BENTON, 425 CHAPTER XXXVII. DECLINING YEARS, 438 CHAPTER XXXVIII. DESTINY OF THE MISSOURI RIVER, 445 INDEX, 449 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. _VOL. II._ KENNETH MCKENZIE, _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ LA BARGE ROCK, 299 A STEAMBOAT AT THE BANK, 331 REMOVING SNAGS FROM THE MISSOURI, 421 “IMPROVING” THE MISSOURI RIVER, 424