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  • in Nebraska; and the first steamboat to navigate Nebraska waters, the Western Engineer, arrived at Fort Lisa in September 1819. Lisa established Fort Lisa...
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    wide with a displacement of 30 tons. Despite its clever design, the Western Engineer did not operate effectively on the Missouri River. Upstream speed...
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    1856, 1859, and 1860. During the American Civil War he enlisted in the Western Engineer Regiment in 1861 and served for about eight months. He served as...
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    design and build a special steamboat for the expedition. The vessel, the Western Engineer, was constructed in Pittsburgh in 1818–19. One of the first stern-wheelers...
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    task force of scientists as far as possible on the venture. Named the Western Engineer, it was uniquely designed to navigate the expected narrow, shallow...
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  • but lost one in a river snag along the way. The most useful was the Western Engineer, which was a stern wheeler steamboat. Long was charged with running...
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  • the War of 1812. 1819 The first steamboat to ply Nebraskan waters, the Western Engineer, arrives at Fort Lisa. 1824 Cabanne's Trading Post established in...
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  • the War of 1812. 1819 The first steamboat to ply Nebraskan waters, the Western Engineer, arrives at Fort Lisa. 1824 Cabanne's Trading Post established in...
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    Louis, and many traveled even farther upstream. A handful, such as the Western Engineer and the Yellowstone, could make it up the river as far as eastern...
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    Kearny's Yellowstone Expedition in 1819. The Expedition's craft, the Western Engineer, was the first steamboat to successfully venture up the Missouri...
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    from 1934 until her retirement in 1966. According to a report in The Western Engineer, in 1960 she visited her daughter in Florida and witnessed the shooting...
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    scientists began their journey from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Western Engineer that Long designed for the expedition. They traveled along the Ohio...
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