Steamboat Wreck (Other Keyword)
Steamboat Wrecks
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The Fate of Far West: Geophysical Investigations to Locate the Wreck of an Iconic Upper Missouri Mountain Packet Steamboat (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Maritime Transportation, History, and War in the 19th-Century Americas" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Far West is legendary as part of the history of steamboating on the Upper Missouri River. It is especially noteworthy for its association with the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. In many ways Far West is iconic as a historically well documented steamboat employed in the Missouri River trade and transport. It's...
IDENTIFICATION OF WOOD FROM THE WRECK OF A STEAMBOAT, POSSIBLY THE NORTH ALABAMA, IN THE MISSOURI RIVER (2005)
Fourteen wood samples were submitted for identification from a steamboat that wrecked and sank in the Missouri River between Vermillion and Yankton, South Dakota (site 25CD82). This steamboat is believed to be the North Alabama, which sunk on October 27, 1870. Wood samples were identified to determine types of lumber used in construction of the steamboat.