It is important to acknowledge that the Georgetown steamboat owners and their crews were in the river freight and passenger business at the sharp and dangerous, and always moving, frontier edge of our nation. Without them and men like them, the development of the interior of our nation would have been delayed many years.
I have added a page to tell their story: Lower Missouri River.
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