BUILT: 1848/49 at Marine Railway of Brooks, Meegan and Holiday at St. Louis
FINAL DISPOSITION: Lost in ice at St. Louis, February 2, 1854
OWNERS: Captain Joseph La Barge
OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Joseph La Barge (master)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Yellowstone River; Missouri River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4910; St. Ange was named for St. Ange de Bellerive, a French officer who accompanied Bourgemont in Kansas in 1724. He became the first French military governor of upper Louisiana. Captain La Barge made trips from St. Louis to Fort Union on the Missouri annually until 1853 for the American Fur Company. In 1850 she made the trip in 28 days, which was considered a record. She carried 200 Mormons westward on the Missouri in 1851. She also went to the mouth of Poplar River in 1851, the first steamboat there. Cholera broke out aboard the boat in 1851. Father De Smet and Father Hoecken, both Jesuit missionaries, were aboard. Father Hoecken fell victim to cholera and died