How Long to Read Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River

How Long Does it Take to Read Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River by Hiram Martin Chittenden

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

No less authority than Hiram Chittenden wrote this marvelous history of the early days of one of America's most important waterways. A West Point engineer, namesake of the Hiram Chittenden locks in Seattle, Chittenden was a respected historian of early western America.There was no railroad system in the United States whose importance to its tributary country was relatively greater than was that of the Missouri River to the trans-Mississippi territory in the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century. Through the earliest days of navigation on the great Missouri, through its use in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, Custer's Last Stand, and its eventual demise as a major highway due to the development of the railroads, this history tells of an America that depended on rivers for expansion. Though Grant Marsh captained the steamer Far West, which took the wounded Little Bighorn survivors to Ft. Lincoln, La Barge also saw service as a captain on Custer's Yellowstone Expedition.The life of Joseph La Barge exemplifies the 19th century life of the river. The author met La Barge shortly before his death and found him to be an extraordinary wealth of information about early steamboat travel, as La Barge had owned and operated boats on the river for many years. He was on the first boat that went to the far upper river, and he made the last through voyage from St. Louis to Fort Benton.

How long is Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River?

Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River by Hiram Martin Chittenden is 277 pages long, and a total of 71,189 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 29 minutes to read Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River aloud.

What Reading Level is Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River?

Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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