Today is the 150^th anniversary of the departure of the str Mollie Ebert from St Louis for Ft Benton.  According to the diary of Capt Thomas S Calhoon, the str Mollie Ebert left at 4AM on Fri 16 Apr with a load of freight and passengers.  Nancy Ann (Poe) Ebert traveled with her husband, Capt George W Ebert on that trip.  Nancy Ann Poe’s journal is an invaluable historical document that reveals, first hand, the dangers, tedium, and beauty of the unsettled frontier.

Aboard the str Sallie, Capt Calhoon departed from St Louis for Ft Benton on 24 Apr 1869 in the company of the str Nick Wall and str Tacony. 

The packets Mollie Ebert, Sallie and Nick Wall were owned and operated by Georgetown men..

 

 

 

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