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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Yellowstone |
| Owner | American Fur Company (1831) and Thomas Toby & Brother of New Orleans (1835) |
| Operator | Benjamin Young,[1] Anson G. Bennett, Joseph La Barge, Thomas Wigg Grayson,[2] John E. Ross,[3] and James V. West[4] |
| Route | Missouri River, Mississippi River, Brazos River, and the Gulf of Mexico |
| Ordered | November 24, 1830 |
| Builder | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Maiden voyage | April 16, 1831[5] |
| Fate | unknown, possibly sank in Buffalo Bayou |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Side-wheeler, packet boat |
| Displacement | 144 tons |
| Length | 120 ft (37 m)[6][7] or 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m)[8][9] or 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Depth | 6 ft (1.8 m)[13][14] or 5.5 ft (1.7 m) |
| Decks | Three: Hold, Main Deck and Boiler Deck. |
| Installed power | 1 boiler, as built; refitted with two boilers in 1835. |
| Propulsion | Two 18 ft (5.5 m) paddlewheels |
| Capacity | 75 tons,[11] 72 passengers, and 22 crew.[12] |
| Crew | 22[10] |
| Notes | First steamboat to reach above Council Bluff, Iowa, on the Missouri River (1831); First steamboat to reach mouth of Yellowstone River (1832); Crossed Texan Army on Brazos River in Texas War for Independence (1836). |
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The steamboat Yellowstone (sometimes Yellow Stone) was a side wheeler steamboat built in Louisville, Kentucky, for the American Fur Company for service on the Missouri River. By design, the Yellowstone was the first powered boat to reach above Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River achieving, on her maiden voyage, Fort Tecumseh, South Dakota, on June 19, 1831.[15] The Yellowstone also played an important role in the Texas Revolution of 1836, crossing the Texas Army under Sam Houston over the swollen Brazos River ahead of Santa Anna's pursuing Mexican Army.
- ^ Jackson, Donald. Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985, p. 4.
- ^ Puryear, Pamela Ashworth and Nath Winfield Jr., Sandbars and Sternwheelers, Steam Navigation on the Brazos; Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1976. p. 46.
- ^ Jackson, Donald, Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. p. 47.
- ^ Gray, William Fairfax. Diary of Col. Wm F. Gray, from Virginia to Texas, 1835. Dillaye &, 1909. p. 221.
- ^ Burkhalter, Lois Wood (March 26, 2014). "YELLOW STONE". Texas Handbook Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- ^ Jackson, Donald. Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. p. 1, 145, 160.
- ^ 122' length; 20.5' beam: Puryear, Pamela Ashworth and Nath Winfield Jr., Sandbars and Sternwheelers, Steam Navigation on the Brazos; Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1976. p. 46.
- ^ Jackson, Donald. Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. p. 1, 160.
- ^ 122' length; 20.5' beam: Puryear, Pamela Ashworth and Nath Winfield Jr., Sandbars and Sternwheelers, Steam Navigation on the Brazos; Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1976. p. 46.
- ^ Jackson, Donald, Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. p. 2.
- ^ Chittenden, H. M. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River. New York: Harper., 1903. p. 112n.
- ^ Jackson, Donald, Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. p. 2.
- ^ Jackson, Donald. Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. p. 1, 145, 160.
- ^ Ramos, Mary G. "The 'Yellow Stone'". Texas Almanac. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved November 21, 2017.
- ^ Schell, Herbert S. (2004). History of South Dakota. Fourth Edition, Revised. Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0971517134.