. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. Campaigning with the Seventh Cavalry ment and comfort of his passengers, but his resources werelimited, and about the only advantage the people on theboat enjoyed over those with the column was in the factthat they were protected from the violent storms of earlysummer. After the arrival of the Seventh at Fort Rice, only a fewdays were spent there, then the farewells were said to thefamilies left behind, and on the 20th of June the columnmoved out on its long march into the uninhabited wilder-ness.
. The conquest of the Missouri; being the story of the life and exploits of Captain Grant Marsh. Campaigning with the Seventh Cavalry ment and comfort of his passengers, but his resources werelimited, and about the only advantage the people on theboat enjoyed over those with the column was in the factthat they were protected from the violent storms of earlysummer. After the arrival of the Seventh at Fort Rice, only a fewdays were spent there, then the farewells were said to thefamilies left behind, and on the 20th of June the columnmoved out on its long march into the uninhabited wilder-ness. The force consisted of the entire 7th Cavalry withthe exception of two troops, headquarters and five com-panies of the 22nd Infantry, six companies of the 9thInfantry, four of the 8th Infantry, two of the 6th In-fantry, three of the 17th Infantry, and a detachment ofArikaree Indian scouts.* General David S. Stanley, * The Army of the United States. In his article on The Yellow-stone Expedition of 1873, published in the Journal of the U. S. CavalryAssociation, October, 1905, Lieutenant Charle
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