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<p>[quote user="dakotafred"]</p> <p>[quote user="Sam1"]</p> <p>Before dams were built on the Missouri River, which is the longest river in America, shallow draft boats could go at least as far as present day Miles City, Montana. The Star of the West, which served as General Alfred Terry's headquarters during the ill fated Custer expedition of 1876, was anchored near the Miles City area. It was the first to bring the news of the Custer defeat back to Fort Lincoln, where Mrs. Custer and many of the wives of the men of the 7th Calvary lived.</p> <div style="clear:both;">[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;">I believe the steamers actually reached as far as Great Falls, when the water was high enough, as early as the late fur-trade era. Usually they did well to get as far as Fort Union, in (future) far western North Dakota. Then their trade goods would be transloaded to keelboats for posts further upriver.</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;">The boat accompanying the Custer expedition was the Far West, hired by Terry but owned and piloted by a great figure in the history of Missouri River navigation, Bismarck's Grant Marsh. [/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;">You are correct. It was the Far West.</div>
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