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Aircraft Carriers In The 1860s? The Civil War Saga Of The Steamboat Fanny
Which of these terms does not belong: Gettysburg, secession, cavalry charge, musket fire, or carrier-launched aerial reconnaissance platform? Most slot nicely into what we remember about the ...
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A STEAMBOAT BURNED.
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other Steamboat Explosion Five Lives Lost.
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Photographs from 1860s provide rare glimpse of bridge that propelled Kansas City’s rise
A steamboat travels past the Hannibal Bridge ... process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s. It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive ...
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Steamboat Story
THE CONQUEST OF THE MISSOURI (458)—Joseph Mills Hanson—Murray Hill ($3.50). This brisk, colorful history, first published in 1909 and now reissued, has been so long out of print that it will ...
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Grace: Bevy of volunteers helped rescue 1860s history salvaged from sunken steamboat
On April 1 that year, the then-new Bertrand chugged up the Missouri River, chock full of items to sell to a burgeoning market in a new gold-mining town in Montana. The people who ...