That unknown steamboat’s boiler currently sits above the water. Federal law makes all these sunken ships the property of the state of Missouri. In the case of the Montana, you’d likely be ...

The 220-ton packet steamboat was bringing flour and whiskey from Sioux City, Iowa, to Montana, sinking cargo worth $12,000 at the time, according to the Missouri River National Park. In 1904 ...

In 1865, Montana placer gold mines yielded some $18,000,000 — more than $310,000,000 today. The dawn of a golden era in steamboat navigation was opening at Fort Benton, head of navigation of the ...

In fact, she couldn’t find a biography of any Upper Missouri steamboat captain published in the last 100 years. Nelson is raising money for a trip with GoFundMe.com to Montana to do further ...

What brought him to mind recently was a song he recorded called, “Railroad, Steamboat, River and Canal.” Trying to figure out how miners came to Montana in the gold rush of the 1860s involved ...

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa – It was on March 18, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand left St. Louis, Missouri, for the Montana gold fields. Steamboats were a popular mode of transportation at the time ...

The same was true this month on October 7, when a 4.1 earthquake occurred near Dillon, Montana, about 100 miles from Steamboat. Hours later, Steamboat had a major eruption. Maybe, in both cases ...