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Description
This document is a newspaper article from The Daily Pioneer and Democrat in Saint Paul, Minnesota, about the steamboat business. The information and data provided in the article shows a significant increase of steamboat usage since 1844.
Transcript "Growth of the Steamboating Business —The Season of 1856" Newspaper Article
Source-Dependent Questions
- This newspaper article was referenced by C.C. Andrews in his letters. Analyze the table in the newspaper article. Support the data in the table with text from C.C. Andrews' letters.
- How does the information in the newspaper article confirm what C.C. Andrews writes about in his letters with regard to travel to the West and its growth?
Citation Information
"Growth of the Steamboating Business —The Season of 1856," The Daily Pioneer and Democrat, 20 November 1856. Courtesy of Minnesota History Society