. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. 0 — 2 p Westward by the Main Channel great crops of tobacco, hemp, and small grain, producedby slave labor on the plantations of the valley, began topour into the steamboat landings for shipment to the markets. Kansas City did not yet exist and West-port was the northern terminus of the historic old SantaFe Trail, and also the distributing point for the section ofcountry of which the former city is now the center. Goodsfor Sedalia, Marshall, Warrensburg, Holden and otherimportant towns in
. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. 0 — 2 p Westward by the Main Channel great crops of tobacco, hemp, and small grain, producedby slave labor on the plantations of the valley, began topour into the steamboat landings for shipment to the markets. Kansas City did not yet exist and West-port was the northern terminus of the historic old SantaFe Trail, and also the distributing point for the section ofcountry of which the former city is now the center. Goodsfor Sedalia, Marshall, Warrensburg, Holden and otherimportant towns in the interior were put ashore at thenearest river landing and hauled thence to their destina-tions in large freight wagons, drawn by several span ofoxen or horses. 9 CHAPTER II THE ICE GORGE OF 56 And then that gorge sent up a roarThat shook the solid ground;The sort that splits your ears in twoWhen a side-wheel packet drops a flueAn bloivs six bilers amongst her cre\oAn cooks them that aint drowned. DURING the winter of 1855-1856, the A. B. Cham-bers lay in ice-harbor at the St. Louis leve
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