Arabia Steamboat Museum Captures Life on the Missouri in 1856

Showcases sunken treasures, harvested from a farmer’s field. Nineteenth-century pioneers quipped that the big Western rivers were “too thick to drink, too thin to plow.” Boatmen knew that beneath these turbulent, muddy waters lay hidden dangers, chief among them submerged tree trunks and branches. Such “snags” claimed nearly 300 of the 400 steamboats lost along …

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