Peninah No. 2 (1876-1887)

Photographer

Morrow, S. J.

Date

• April 1881

Publisher

Yankton, S.D.: S.J. Morrow

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet
• BUILT: 1876 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned on November 7, 1887
• OWNERS: Captain William J. Kountz
• RIVERS: Missouri River; Red River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4441; Had the same engines which were on the Peninah. In 1877 she was reported to have been 5 miles up the Marias River (tributary of the Missouri) to pick up buffalo robes. She was the sole commercial navigation on that stream. In 1879 she snagged at Bon Homme Landing. Her last appearance at Fort Benton was in 1880. She ended her career on the Red River in Louisiana and burned in 1887
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The wreck of the Western (crushed by ice) can be seen on the right. The large boat in the background is the Nellie Peck and the boat at the landing is the Peninah No. 2