. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. in reaching herhusband and the soldiers who, as soon as they saw herperil, had snatched up their weapons and rushed out tosave her from a fate too horrible to contemplate. BothCaptain Rankin and his wife became warm friends ofCaptain Marsh, and while they remained at Buford henever failed to visit them in his trips up and down theriver. The difficulties experienced in establishing Fort Bufordwere paralleled in the founding of nearly every one of theearly river posts. Even when, after vast toil and
. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. in reaching herhusband and the soldiers who, as soon as they saw herperil, had snatched up their weapons and rushed out tosave her from a fate too horrible to contemplate. BothCaptain Rankin and his wife became warm friends ofCaptain Marsh, and while they remained at Buford henever failed to visit them in his trips up and down theriver. The difficulties experienced in establishing Fort Bufordwere paralleled in the founding of nearly every one of theearly river posts. Even when, after vast toil and hard-ship, they were at last completed, so inadequate had beenthe tools and so wretched the materials available forbuilding purposes that they were scarcely habitable. Colo-nel D. B. Sackett, U. S. A., a very observant officer whoascended the Missouri in the summer of 1866 on a tourof inspection, reported* all of them above Fort Randallin a horrible condition. Their buildings were made en-* In report of the Secretary of War, 1866-67. 84 »o wH w w )—> t-H> in> O»H OS /-< O w o. The Troubles of a Treasure Ship tirely of cottonwood logs with dirt floors and roofs and nowindows, as there were no casings for them and no erected close to the river bank on the bottoms, theywere liable to be flooded in high water, while the rains ofsummer soaked through the mud roofs, turning the floorsto puddles, and the snows of winter drove in between theloosely-laid logs, burying everything in an icy cottonwood timber decayed rapidly, necessitatingfrequent repairs, while it also harbored swarms of bedbugs,fleas and other insects, which no efforts availed to post was infested with rats in such numbers thatthey constituted a veritable plague. It was impossible tokeep either provisions or forage from them except inmetal-covered cases, for they would gnaw through woodat if it were paper. At Fort Rice, Colonel Sackett esti-mated that the rats destroy
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