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DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Clark.

In the spring of 2011, the Missouri River Mainstem received unprecedented combination of snow melt and rain causing widespread flooding unseen since the construction of the Missouri River Dams. One of the consequences of the flooding was damage to archaeological sites located on the lands surrounding the reservoirs. As a result, South Dakota State Historical Society (SDSHS) partnered with the University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) to assess potential damages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Scott. Steve Dasovich. Bert Ho. Dave Conlin. Sadie S Dasovich.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annalies Corbin. Steve Dasovich.

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. In 2002, East Carolina University and SCI Engineering conducted excavations on Montana, the largest all-wood steamboat ever on the Missouri River, which sank in 1884.  Located across the river from St. Charles, Missouri, the wreck yielded some interesting, new information on steamboat architecture.  The project,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Wiewel. Autumn Cool. Christopher Fletcher. Taylor Thornton. James Zimmer-Dauphinee.

As part of a flood assessment effort in collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers and the South Dakota State Historical Society, archaeo-geophysicists from the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas performed remote sensing investigations in 2014 at fifteen sites along the Missouri River in North and South Dakota. Among these are Midipadi and Nightwalker, two related late eighteenth to early nineteenth century Hidatsa sites located on opposite sides of...