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The beginning of Steamboating on the Big Muddy. The Big Muddy is the Missouri River. The Big Muddy was created as a way for fur traders to trade goods with others. In 1831 the first steamboat to navigate the Missouri River, was the Yellowstone.
The Yellowstone was put in carrying goods for traders Pierre Chouteau and Kenneth McKenzie. Around 1833 more steamboats started to make an appearance on the river, because of the American Fur Trade Company. In 1873 and 1874 steamboats were being used regularly and more ports were being created in order to get the good to a railroad. Steamboats and the railroad were successfully transporting goods.

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The most successful and known company was the Missouri Transportation Company, "Coulson Line". The company was headed by Sanford B. Coulson, "Napoleon of the Big Muddy" .
This company had seven boats on the river. One of the boats was the "Far West" earned its fame when it raced 700 miles downriver on 5554 hours to take news of Custer's defeat to the telegraph station at Bismark.
There were three other companies, the "Kuntz Line", the "Peck Line", and the "Fort Benton Transportation Company" . All these other companies had fleets of steamboat on the "Big Muddy".  The Fort Benton Company was also known as the "Power Line" because the Power Family ran the business.
There were also independent operators like I.P Baker, who ran the "Red Cloud". He bought into the Fort Benton operation in 1883. He who had once worked for the company in St. Louis, Missouri, became it's guiding hand. After 1885 the Fort Benton Line H

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The river cart was the first overland vechicle to carry goods. Contructed out wood. The cart can carry one thousand pounds. They used the carts to hunt bison.

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Stagecoaches played an important role in transporting people. They could go practically anyplace a steamboat could not.
Stagecoaches were mainly used for carrying passengers and baggage to places inland (away from rivers).
The 1st stagecoach operation was the Minnesota Stage Company. They operated the stage line between St. Paul and Ft. Abercrombie in 1862. With this company they contracted with the U.S. government to carry mail to Ft. Garry and this was the main income  for the company, in other words thats what kept it running.
Then eventually railroads were introduced and the stagecoaches and rapidly became less popular.

Here you can see that they could travel on almost any terrain in any type of weather.

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Here you can see how full they packed them when they went on long journeys.

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The Northwest Express and Transportation Company started hauling passengers and mail on stagecoaches from Bismarck to  the Black Hills. Since the discovery of gold in the Black Hills the Northern Pacific Railroad and businessmen in Bismarck saw the opportunity for starting a freighting business. The Northwest Company built 210 miles of road from Bismarck to Deadwood in the 1880s. The company also constructed a large corral and stables in Bismarck, at times over 200 wagons and stages were making trips to Deadwood.

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The Big Muddy at the time was a unpredictable river. The currents caused sandbars, within a short time of a week. On the way up the river the pilot could charter where all the sandbars were but on the way down the sandbars could be in an entirely different spot. Trees and other things could flow down the river, that made the trips harder because they had to try their best to avoid these obstacles or else they might smash the hull of the boat. The Missouri River steamboats were built for the water. They didn't sit more than three feet in the water which is called shallow drafted, so if necessary they could go in low water. A feature of these boats was that they had two mast poles in the front of the boats, with two other long poles with lines attached to them, to pull them out of sandbars. What they did get stuck the bottom poles were put forward and stuck in the mud, the lines attached to the poles were hooked to a steam wrench and the boat would be pulled toward the poles. They repeated this until they got unstuck. They called it grasshopering because it resembles a grasshoppers leap.

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Anson Northup sold his steamboat to the Minnesota Stage Company, then went to St. Paul to collect his $2,000 for  his steamboat.

The Minnesota Stage Company change the of steamboat to the Pioneer. The Pioneer was the only boat on the river until 1862, then a much larger boat took over called the international.

The International was then bought from the Minnesota Stage Company and went to the hudson bay company.

Chippewa protested against using the steamboat because they thought it chased the wild game off.

In 1862 the river trade got closed then the hudson bay company sold the boat to kittson, kittson only carried products of the Hudson Bay Company.

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In 1872, two people named Hill and Alexander Griggs went in to the flatboat business on the red river. Flatboats used the rivers current for power and would be loaded and poled along the river until they made it to Fort Gary, and would then be taken apart and used for lumber.
In 1871 they had built the Selkirk and put it in the river, and when they did the international had competition, though it did not last long. For that reason, Kittson and Hill agreed to have both boats under one management to make even more profit.
When they had formed a new company it was named Kittison Transportation Company, and both boats were then under Kittisons management. Anyone who would've liked to ship goods had to pay a price set by the company.
Once again in 1874, Hill, Kittison and some associated created yet another boat called the Red River Transportation Company

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The Grand Forks and the Grandin were boats that were built in 1986. The boats were quickly replaced by another form of transportation called the railroad.

From 1872 to 1878 was thought as  the great steamboat era on the Red River. The steamboats encouraged further more settling in the Red River Valley. The captain of the Selkirk, Alexander Griggs, founded the city of Grand Forks. Grand Forks became a important steamboat port in North Dakota.

The boats that were used were stern-wheelers and had different rooms for the needs of the crew and passengers such as a dining room. The boat had two smokestacks. The wheelhouse was located on the top deck. They often pushed large barges that had grain.

In 1872, the steamboats hauled 1000 passengers and 4000 tons of freight. They were a great improvement to the Red River cart train.

In 1912,

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Joe Rolette was the first fur trader to use the cart to send goods to St. Paul, Minnesota. Joe Rolette was sent by Henry Sibley to secure trade with the Indians and the Metis. Joe became a member of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, which governed the region.

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The most successful and known company was the Missouri Transportation Company, "Coulson Line". The company was headed by Sanford B. Coulson, "Napoleon of the Big Muddy" .
This company had seven boats on the river. One of the boats was the "Far West" earned its fame when it raced 700 miles downriver on 5554 hours to take news of Custer's defeat to the telegraph station at Bismark.
There were three other companies, the "Kuntz Line", the "Peck Line", and the "Fort Benton Transportation Company" . All these other companies had fleets of steamboat on the "Big Muddy".  The Fort Benton Company was also known as the "Power Line" because the Power Family ran the business.
There were also independent operators like I.P Baker, who ran the "Red Cloud".  He bought into the Fort Benton operation in 1883. He who had once worked for the company in St. Louis, Missouri, became it's guiding hand. After 1885 the Fort Benton Line held a monopoly on the steamboat business.

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https://www.wellsfargohistory.com/stagecoach/
Stagecoaches were not only used for moving goods and people from one place to another but they helped keep people in touch from all over. They carried money, mail, people, baggage and even news. Business owners used it to send their payments and instructions.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/stagecoach/
The most profitable thing to do with a stagecoach was to carry mail, which involved a contract with the U.S. There were normally a station every 12 miles. One kind of station was a "Home Station". They were normally bigger and run by a couple or family. They were normally spaced out every 50 miles. They provided housing and meager meals and had stables (included blacksmith, and telegram station). Here drivers normally switched. The other kind of station was a swing station. They were commonly run by a few bachelor stock tenders. They were much smaller than a home station, they normally consisted of a barn, small correl and very petite cabin. Here drivers only stopped for a maximum of 10 minutes, to let passengers stretch or change their team out. These occur much sooner than the home stations.
At one time there was 150 stations between Kansas and California.

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They carts carried dried meat, pelts, animal skin clothing made from Native American's. Made out of wood.

Measurements
overall: 2 1/2 ft x 3 1/2 ft x 4 1/2 ft;

shaft: 5 1/2 ft

axle: 5 3/4 ft

wheel: 5 3/8 ft

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_840958

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Stagecoaches played a very important role in transporting people on the prairie where the steamboats couldn't go. There was a stage line between St. Paul, Minnesota and Fort Abercrombie in 1862 called the Minnesota Stage Company.

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the steamboats were gone by 1912. They were replaced by railroads. All that was left was rotting ports

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The cart train has five to six brigads, and only ten trains per brigade. There are three different trails they can follow; Kittson's Trail, Plains Trail, and Woods Trail. The cart trains make squeling noises because the wood is rubbing.

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Steamboating on the Big Muddy.                                                   Lily 

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Steamboating on the Big Muddy.                                                   Lily 

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For several decades the Big Muddy was used as a way to transport goods using steamboats. The steamboats were greatly used during the time when settlers needed supplies and goods to survive in the United States.
http://bigmuddyspeakers.org/2014/04/steamboats-giles/

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"Far West" Steamboat

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https://library.ndsu.edu/fargo-history/?q=content/steamboats-1859-1871
The St.Paul Business Community strongly endorsed the idea of putting a steam boat on the water so they had made a deal that who ever could get the first boat on water would get $1000

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By 1871 , the stagecoaches were making regular runs between Fort Garry, Canada and St. Paul. In the western part of the country, the Northwest Express and Transportation Company started hauling passengers and mail on stagecoaches between Bismarck and the Black Hills. By the 1880s, the Northwest Company had built 210 miles of road from Bismarck to Deadwood.

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Steamboating on the Big Muddy      Carlee

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Steamboating on the Big Muddy      Carlee

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Steamboats were used to transport people and supplies up and down the Missouri for almost 100 years.It was the pathway for expansion until the railroads came out in the 1800's. The Missouri was a rough river to travel on. It was always changing and just a runny mud. So it was easy to get stuck. So the steamboats on the Missouri were a little bit different then on the Red River.
http://montanakids.com/history_and_prehistory/transportation/steamboating.htm

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Stagecoaches were the first form of transportation that originated in the 1600s in Great Britain. The stagecoach would stop at places they called "stages". Stages are where people on the stagecoach could stop for food and water and the horses carrying passengers would be switched for new ones. Changing horses every stop meant that the stagecoach could go faster.  https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Stagecoach