Which of these terms does not belong: Gettysburg, secession, cavalry charge, musket fire, or carrier-launched aerial reconnaissance platform? Most slot nicely into what we remember about the ...

A steamboat travels past the Hannibal Bridge ... process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s. It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive ...

He revolutionized consumer steamboat travel and made a name for himself with the low costs and luxury feel of his ships. By the 1860s, however, Vanderbilt saw the future of transportation was not ...

the slaughter of three hundred innocents at a time may afford an apology for throwing out some hints as to better steamboat construction. We are aware that we contend against fearful odds in ...

On April 1 that year, the then-new Bertrand chugged up the Missouri River, chock full of items to sell to a burgeoning market in a new gold-mining town in Montana. The people who ...

THE CONQUEST OF THE MISSOURI (458)—Joseph Mills Hanson—Murray Hill ($3.50). This brisk, colorful history, first published in 1909 and now reissued, has been so long out of print that it will ...