We were somewhat surprised when he asked us why we had not brought our horses.
We were at a loss to see how we could employ horses in the pilothouse of a river steamboat.

He said that we might need them before we got back, so we sent for them and had them brought on board.
In a few minutes we were looking down the river, the swift current enabling the little steamer to make a speed of twenty miles an hour.
The commander of the _Far West_ was Captain Grant March, a fine chap of whom I had often heard.

For many years he was one of the most famous swift-water river captains in the country.

It was on his steamer that the wounded from the battle of the Little Big Horn had been transported to Fort Abraham Lincoln, on the Missouri River.

On that trip he made the fastest steamboat time on record.