Voyages Of The Steamboat Yellow Stone

DONALD JACKSON

Publication: Ticknor & Fields, 1985, New York

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter cloth and boards, titles stamped in blue on the spine, xxiv [2], 182 pp., frontispiece [map], preface, acknowledgments and a personal note, illustrated, maps, notes on sources, appendices, index. Brief history of the steamboat Yellow Stone that ventured farther up the Missouri River than any other steamboat had gone before that enabled John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company to monopolize the trade of carrying goods to Indians in exchange for furs. The Yellow Stone was commandeered by Sam Houston at the end of her career to ferry his troops across the Brazos to fight for Texas independence. The author gives a vivid picture of the life and times of one early American steamboat. Fine, bright copy in a lightly soiled dust jacket with one tiny closed tear to the top edge of the front cover.