Steam Conquers the Western Rivers

1811 and after — the New Orleans's gunpowder-and-paddles voyage down the Mississippi, high-pressure engines, giant steamboats built in the wilderness, and the hulls still surfacing from Missouri cornfields.

Playlist by @paddle_steamer_history

8 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The History of Mississippi River Steamships — Shipwreck Sunday
2. How Mississippi Shipwrights Built Giant Steamboats for America's Shallow Rivers — Forgotten Labor
3. THE BOAT THAT BUILT AMERICA - THE STEAMBOAT — Boat Yard
4. Steamboats on the Missouri River | FIND Iowa — Iowa PBS
5. Sunken Treasure: The Steamboat Bertrand — U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
6. Long lost Steamboat Malta found under Missouri farm land — KMBC 9
7. Lost Treasures of the Missouri River: The Stories of Steamboat Sinkings Lost to Time — Inspired Moon
8. The Steamboat Found in a Field — Shipwreck Sunday