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The first steamboat to ply the Missouri …
Years: 1819 - 1819
The first steamboat to ply the Missouri River, the Western Engineer, piloted by Stephen Harriman Long, reaches Fort Lisa in 1819.
Aboard the ship are General Henry Atkinson and Captain Stephen Watt Kearny, both important to the future development of the American West.
Later forts in the Nebraska Territory will be named after them: Fort Atkinson and Fort Kearny.
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- Missouri Fur Company
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Years: 1819 - 1819
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- United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
- Missouri Fur Company
- Missouri, Territory of (U.S.A.)
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