Le FAR WEST, rendu célèbre par son intervention après la LBH.
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]Name: FAR WEST
Type: Sternwheele wooden hull packet.
Size: 190' X 33' X 6'foot. Could carry 200 tns. and 30 cabin passengers.
Drew 20 inches, un-ladened.
Power: 15's- 5 ft., 3 boilers.
Launched: 1870, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Destroyed: 1883, Oct. 30, Mo. R., Mullanthy Bend, 7 mi. below St. Charles, Mo., snagged and lost.
Area: U. Mo., Yellowstone Rs.
1876-77, for 2 yrs. was on Yellowstone R, in government service
Also made some Osage R. trips
Owners: Built for Capt Sallie B. Coulson of Coulson Packet Line
Later, Northwest Transportation Co. called the Peck Line, Sioux City/Yankton,ND.
Later sold to Capt. Henry M. Dodds and Victor Bonnet
Captains: John .M. Belk; Grant Marsh.
: At times, Mart Coulson
: 1881, Master and pilot, Henry Jasper King
Comments: 1877, At levee at Bismark, Dakota Territory.
1876, May 27, With Grant Marsh as Capt. became Custer's
support boat.
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1876, July 4 & 5, Brought Custer's survivors down : 1872 season, raced NELLIE PECK, Sioux City to Fort Benton and back
Mart Coulson on the FAR WEST beat Capt. Grant Marsh and the
NELLIE PECK by 3 hours, the WEST's time being 17 days
and 20 hours.
: 700 mi. to Fort Abraham Lincoln in 54 hrs. Pulled into
Ft. at 11 PM July 5 1876.
: Carried the peace commissioners up to meet with The Sioux.
: In all, made 18 trips to Ft. Benton
: One reference, Time Life book "The Rivermen", Plaza Library, Kansas City, MO.
: Mentioned in this Article.
: Artwork by Gary R. Lucy, FAR WEST at Citadel Rock