Word: marsh
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...master and pilot of the steamer Far West was oldtime Missouri Riverman Grant Marsh, contemporary and sometime shipmate of Mississippi Riverman Mark Twain. Author Joseph Mills Hanson, now 70, knew Marsh in his latter years, talked to him at length about his adventures, wrote The Conquest of the Missouri as a Marsh biography. But in effect it is a history of Missouri steam-boating-notably of the wood-burning sternwheelers that hauled passengers and freight along the empty distances of that "rainwater creek," the Upper Missouri, in the 1860s...
...western hunting lands. They showed their dislike by killing boatmen, miners, surveyors, or whoever else happened to be handy. In 1876 General Phil Sheridan dispatched three converging U.S. Army columns to teach them manners. As supply ship for one of these columns he hired the Far West, Captain Grant Marsh, at a rent...
...Yellowstone. By then Marsh was a renowned pilot, the only man who had ever taken a steamboat well up the Yellowstone River. Marsh ran the 400-ton Far West up the Yellowstone to the Big Horn River, then up to the Little Big Horn. There the Far West tied for safety's sake to an island in midstream rather than the shore, for Crazy Horse and his Sioux were known to be somewhere around. The 7th U.S. Cavalry drew fresh supplies from the hold of the Far West, galloped off under command of a dashing, handsome 37-year...
...pass the time while waiting, Pilot Marsh and members of his crew fished in the Little Big Horn. One morning while fishing they saw a mounted Indian burst through the brush on the water's edge. He pulled up his sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations...
Biography--Linnie Marsh Wolfe, "Son of the Wilderness...