Download The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud, or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series AudioBook Free
In July 1882, the steamboat Red Cloud struck a snag near Fort Peck, Montana, and settled into the foundation of the Missouri River with a full cargo. The Red Cloud was a symbol-and a source-of the trading company's success. Bought for $25,000 in 1877, it was one of three boats which i. G. Baker utilized on the Missouri. A stern-wheeled, wooden-hulled packet fishing boat, the Red Cloud transported both cargo and travellers over a floating palace. But for all its success, when the ship sank only five years later, the transcontinental railroad was already displacing the steamboat as the preferred way to transport both people and cargo. The age of transformation symbolized by the Red Cloud was sketching to an in depth.The first publication to view the development of the Canadian Rockies from a maritime point of view, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud ties the Missouri River's commercial development with the opening of the Canadian west and its most important communities, with the formation of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police force and with the river by which they were supplied.Readers interested in western history, maritime history, and nautical archaeology will see this well-researched and engagingly written publication a great addition with their libraries. The publication is printed by Texas A&M College or university Press.
