INDEX 



317 



Clinton (la.) : 54; packet service, 77; 

 81 ; no rocks in river, 90; 104, 181, 

 187; first raft ran successfully to, 

 192 ; 222 



Clinton Lumber Co: 129, 139, 140, 176 



Clinton Nigger: invention and use, 

 207 



Clyde: steamboat, first iron raft- 

 boat, 180; 186, 220, 233, 237, 243 



Coal: mines opened, 67; price, 68; 

 discovered in Happy Hollovf, 149 ; 

 Wanlockhead mines, 150 



Coal Bluff: steamboat, 240 



Cody, Col. William F: monument, 160 



Coleman, Andrew: rapids pilot, 159 



Colman, C. L: in lumbering business, 

 35 



Columbia: steamboat, built, 178 



Comfort: excursion barge, destroyed, 

 177 



Condor: steamboat, 178 



Control: steamboat, 179 



Cook House dispatches: 108 



Cooks: known by nicknames, 30 



Coon Slough: 70, 219 



Cothell, Robert: 179 



Cratt, David: 237 



Crib: description, 34 



Crooked Slough: 131 



Cumberland river: 182 



Curtis, George M: congressman, 161 



C. \V. Cowles: steamboat, rebuilt, 

 i8i ; 221, 233, 237 



Cyclone: steamboat, burned, 179 



Daisy: steamboat, sold, 180; 229 

 Dalles (The) : 27 



D. A. McDonald: steamboat, 239 

 Dan Hine: steamboat, dismantled, 189 

 Dan Thayer: rafter, 171, 221 

 Daniel Shaw Lumber Company: 33, 



233 

 Daniels, J. C: 172 

 Davenport: steamboat, 159 

 Davenport (la.): 28, 36; packet 



service, 77; 81, i8i, 182, 188 

 Davenport, James: engineer, 96 



Davenport, Will : author's partner, 



55; 56 



Davidson, P. S: 35; boat store, 70 



Davidson Line: see fVhite Collar 



Davis, Capt. Wm: 178 



Deere family: houseboat, 181 



Defenbaugh, James E: 21 



Dells Lumber Company: 34, 220 



Des Moines rapids: rapids pilots, 

 277-278 



Des Moines river: 166 



Desota Bay: raft storage, 139 



Diamond Bluff (Wis.) : 69 



Diamond Jo: steamboat, 77 



Diamond Jo Line: boat stores, 70; 

 steamers, 77; addition to fleet, 78; 

 155, 210, 215 



Dimock, Gould and Co: 54, 143 



Disney and Son: 129 



Dispatch: steamboat, 229 



Dixon (III.) : 240 



Dr. Franklin 11: steamboat, 2t2 



Dodds, Capt. Robert: 82; biograph- 

 ical sketch, 245-246 



Dodge, Gov. Henry: treaty with In- 

 dians, 35 



Dorrance, D. F: rapids pilot, 73; 74, 

 129 



Double-tripping: explained, 17-18 



Doughty, Thomas: 195 



Douglas, Hugh: 180 



Douglas, E: 48 



Douglas Boardman: steamboat, 81; 

 136, 154; rivalry, 154-156; dis- 

 mantled, 178; described, 210; 240 



Dienning, Thomas: pilot, 23 



Dubuque: steamboat, riot, 39-40; 159 



Dubuque (la.): 25; early sawmills, 

 36; 39, 60, 68; boat stores, 70; 100; 

 first iron raft-boat built, 180, 224 



Dubuque, Julian: 163 



Duck creek: 74 



Duley, Joseph: liveryman, 267 



Duncan, Capt. A. E: 129; retired, 268 



Durant, Capt. E. W: 19, 21, 215; bi- 

 ographical sketch, 229-230; fur- 

 ther sketch, 266-267 



Durant and Hanford: 249 



