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Life and Times of the Steamboat Red
Cloud
 Dr.
Annalies Corbin's new book,
The Life And Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: How Merchants, Mounties,
And the Missouri Transformed the West, has been released by the
Texas A&M University Press.
In July 1882, the steamboat
Red Cloud hit a snag near Fort Peck, Montana, and settled into
the bed of the Missouri River with a full cargo. The flagship of I. G.
Baker & Company, it had served as an agent of change in the West through
which it traveled.
The Red Cloud was a
symbol—and a source—of the trading company's success. This
stern-wheeled, wooden-hulled packet boat carried both cargo and
passengers on a "floating palace." When it sank five years later,
though, the transcontinental railroad was already displacing the
steamboat as the preferred way to transport both people and cargo.
The first book to view the
development of the Canadian Rockies from a maritime perspective, The
Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud ties the Missouri River's
commercial development with the opening of the Canadian West and with
the formation of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Readers
interested in western history, maritime history, and nautical
archaeology will find this book an invaluable addition to their
libraries.
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