Louis and steamed upriver to the area of the Chariton River. In 1819 the steamboat Independence departed from St.
Following them, the fur traders also used those labor-intensive methods of transportation to haul trade goods upriver, and bring furs and pelts back down the Missouri to markets. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took their Corps of Discovery expedition up the Missouri River using keelboats and pirogues that they poled and propelled by dragging the vessels using heavy ropes. Courtesy Xerxes 2004 at English Wikipedia. The Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site in Williston, North Dakota, provides the heritage traveler with a living history center experience that illuminates the legendary steamboat era on the Upper Missouri River.
