AUTHOR OF “AMERICAN FUR TRADE OF THE FAR WEST,” “HISTORY OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,” ETC. In a great many ways the War of the Rebellion affected the commerce of the Missouri River. Missouri was a slave State, and most of her citizens along the river were Southern sympathizers. It is stated that all the Missouri River pilots except two were in sympathy with the South, and that General Lyon had to go to the Illinois River for pilots when he wanted to move his troops up the river in June, 1861.…
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