This is an incredible story about the steamboat Arabia, but also about the changing of the Missouri River bed. VERY cool stuff!
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/...dz4Y&firefox=1
This is an incredible story about the steamboat Arabia, but also about the changing of the Missouri River bed. VERY cool stuff!
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/...dz4Y&firefox=1
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Enjoyed the read. Thanks for posting.
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Very cool read. Thanks for sharing!!
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Love this kind of stuff, thanks!
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I live in the KC area. If you're ever close by and are interested in this type of history it's definitely worth your time to stop in and look through the museum.
The WWI memorial is also well worth a visit.
Thanks, Doug. I read the article in the Smithsonian a couple of years ago and think I saw a youtube video of some of the recovery.
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Cool! I was hoping, of course, for some antique guns. Didn't see any, but what a knife assortment!
DG
I've been a couple of times it is very interesting. They are still preserving some of the goods they found. Staff is very inter active with visitors David Hawley is always wondering around the place.
Enjoy both, they have a crew restoring the 'goods'. WWI memorial has changed over the years and now is a neat place to visit. As a kid, there wasn't much there, no underground stuff that I knew of ( that used to be parking lot. Always wanted to go to the top to see the torch there. The original building is interesting also. they do have one of the german anti-tank rifles there.
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I know the approximate location of another steamboat under water and mud on the edge of the Sabine.
Thanks for posting this. Loved it.
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I’ve heard about it not long ago. I think there was a video about it.
Just a little thread drift on the topic. Link to the WW I Memorial and Museum in Kansas City. A great place to visit and ever changing display of artifacts. Very impressive displays and some are one of a kind and never will be duplicated like the paper mural on display. Plan to spend more time than expected. Start early so you do not run out of time.
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Thank you for the read! Great article!
Just amazing how much variety was being sent to stock stores on the frontier. I guess it wasn't all bacon, beans, and hardtack.
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Thanks for posting this.
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We are hoping to take a trip this fall with my cousin and her husband. She has family in Albuquerque so we are headed that way and then to the Grand Canyon. We will probably come back through the Kansas City area. My wife looked at this and put it on our list of must do. So many things to see and not enough time.
Doug, thanks for posting this.
I went to the Steamboat Arabia museum once about twenty years ago. I think they have since moved.
There were a few (very few) guns on display, most in about 50% there state.
And contrary to the article, there was one casualty; a Mule that was tied up on the main deck.
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