According to The Old West Quiz and Fact Book by Rod Gragg, “After the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Seventh Calvary's wounded were placed on the steamboat Far West for transportation back to Fort Abraham Lincoln. The boat's captain, a veteran riverman named Grant Marsh, brought the wounded and the first full account of the battle back to the fort so quickly that he set a speed record on the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers—seven hundred miles covered in fifty-four hours.”
Meanwile,
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