The steamboat was the great civilizer of the West. This
transportation source was responsible for moving emigrants,
settlers, and freight from the edge of the frontier. The Missouri
River was the highway. For twenty years, 1840-1860, the frontier
line of settlement moved up the Missouri River to the
Kansas-Missouri border. Here it stopped briefly. In those two
decades, a boom occurred that was fuelled by a variety of factors.
Towns were established along every bend of the Missouri River that
catered to the whims of everyone that stopped at their banks. This
was the Golden Age of steamboat navigation. Everyone speculated in
town lots and real estate. Some became wealthy but everyone tried.
Then, almost as quickly as the boom hit, the Panic of 1857 took
everything away. Towns, people, dreams, even the steamboat itself,
came and went, leaving an empty void. The railroad took over, and
any town built on a narrow line of track suddenly took over the
boom. This book documents a fascinating age, a time that came and
left in two decades, never to return. Using primary accounts and
sources, historican Dan Fitzgerald documents this boom and bust
era---the dreams, the fortunes, the profit, and the eventual loss.
Come aboard for the ride.
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