The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
CONQUEST OF
The MISSOURI
VOLUME JUST ISSUED, BEING
THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS or
CAPT. GRANT MARSH, KNOWN
TO EVERY NORTH DAKoTAN,
VERY INTERESTING.

There is no one in the northwest
who has not heard Of Captain Grant
Marsh and all who have met him are
his friends. Joseph Mills Hanson has
recently published a most interesting
volume entitled, The Conquest of the
Missouri. being story of the life and
exploits of Captain Marsh. Every eff
fort possible has been made to secure
accuracy in this story and the details
were drawn from records of historical
societies, public library documents and
the war department.
The author had the assistance of
such men as General Miles; General
Forsyth; Major Kendrick; Col. VIM.
F. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill:
Samuel L. Clemens, who wrote under
the non de plume of Mark Twain, and
whose death was so recently lamented;
Joseph H. Taylor. who recently pass
ed away at Washburn; Col. C. A.
Lounsberry, Major Martin Maginnds,
and many others.
Captain Marsh was an actor in
events of great historic moment, COW
ering almost the entire period of the
conquest of the upper Missouri valley.
and the opening to civilization of the
vast territory they had occupied.
The work is embelIished and repro
auctions of many photographs of pio-
neer days, Including the old post trad
ers store at Fort Buford, as it existed
from 1855 to 1879; the Steamer Nelly
Peck at the Fort Benton Levee in
1872 the Mandan Indian Village as
Fort Berthold in 1870; Fort Thompson
on the Grow Creek Reservation; the
Sioux War Dance; Camp of the Gros-
ventres Indians at Fort Buford in 1874:
Yellowstone Kelly as he appeared
In 1870; group pictures Of the officers
and their ladies, of the Seventh Caval-
ry at Fort Lincoln in 1875 which in
cluded the Clusters and many other
well known army officers; the Steamer
Far West, on which Captain Marsh
brought down the wounded to Bis
marck after the Custer Massacre. and
many other similar views
Captain Marsh commenced life as a
cabin boy in the river traffic between
Pittsburg and st. Louis and for ga
years has followed steamboating on
the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri
rivers, the greater part of this time be-
ing spent upon the latter.
While engaged as engineer and cap
tain of steamers along the Mississippi
ne became acquainted with Samuel l..
Clemens, who has since became better
known as Mark Twain who was then
pilot In the same service, and this
intimacy extended through all these
years
Captain Marsh's life has been full of
noble deeds, as he has always done his
duty under whatever circumstances he
might be placed, but the event which
will probably be remembered longest
was the captains trip from the Custer
battle field to Fort Lincoln near Pis-
marck, with the wounded from that
terrible slaughter pen. He bore the
first news of that great disaster which
was put on the wires by Col. C. A.
Lounsberry at Bismarck.
This expedition was only one of the
many undertaken by Captain Marsh in
connection with the army, with the
surveyors in advance of the construc-
ton of the Northern Pacific and with
the pioneers who explored and settled
the territory for which the only high
way then was the Missouri river and
its tributaries.
Captain Marshs work has been we'll
done and though past the three score