He had an occasional proud and interesting hour. At the time of General Grant's obsequies at New York, Joseph was in Washington to see the "Great Father" about his reservation. General Miles, who greatly admired the hero of the Lolo trail, asked him to ride with himself at the head of the funeral procession. Mounted on a magnificent charger, Joseph rode solemnly through the streets of the metropolis by the side of the conqueror of Bear Paw Mountain, and there were not wanting those who said that the Indian was the finer horseman and the finer-looking man. But Joseph died at his camp on the Nespilem without ever seeing Wallowa. His last request was that he be buried there. He remained an Indian to the last, not ordinarily living in a house or wearing civilised costume or even speaking English, though perfectly able to do so. His life might have been happier had he never been known to fame. [Illustration: Camp of Chief Joseph on the Nespilem, Wash. Photo. by T. W. Tolman, Spokane.] The next year after the Joseph War, or in 1878, occurred the Bannock War, the scene of which was mainly Umatilla County in Oregon and other parts adjoining the River. Though at first, as has happened so many times, the Indians met with successes, the end was their inevitable defeat. With the close of the Bannock War it may be said that Indian warfare practically ended. The war-whoop ceased to be heard and the tomahawk was brandished no more along the Columbia. CHAPTER X When the Fire-Canoes Took the Place of the Log-Canoes Variety of Craft that have Navigated the Columbia--The _Beaver_, _Carolina_, _Columbia_, and _Lot Whitcomb_--Beginning of Steamboating above the Cascades--Steamboats above The Dalles--Rival Companies on the River--The Oregon Steam Navigation Company--Great Business Developments of the Decade of the Sixties--Specimen Shipments in 1862--The Steamboat Ride from Portland to Lewiston--Some of the Steamboat Men of the Period--Story of W. H. Gray and his Sailboat on the Snake River--Descending The Dalles--Captain Coe's Account of the First Steamboat Ride on the Upper Columbia and the Snake--Navigation above Colville and on the Lakes--The Locks and Prospects of Future Navigation--Remarkable Trips on the River--Some Steamboats of the Present. We have learned that our River has been navigated by boats of almost every description. At one time it was the hollowed cedar-log canoes of the aborgines. Again, the bateaux of the trappers were the chief craft to cut the blue lakes and the white rapids. At yet other times it was the flat-boats of the immigrants. Sailing ships of every sort--frigates, galleons, caravels, men-of-war, full-rigged ships, barks, brigs, schooners, and sloops--crowded early to the silver gate of the River.