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Presentation Tags: Transportation

February 8, 2022

Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River

Online Presentation by Historian and Author James Erwin

February 8th we were joined by author James Erwin to discuss the impressive engineering and fragile nature of steamboat travel on the Lower Missouri River.

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Steamboat Arabia Model

March 9, 2021

Steamboat Landscape

Presentation by amateur historian and steamboat modeler Eric Reuter

In this fascinating and in-depth presentation, Eric Reuter used hand-made scale models of Missouri River steamboats to discuss the linked history of steamboat development and environmental changes in the Missouri basin, drawing on his professional and personal interests in the links between geology, ecology, history, and land management.

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Presentation Archive

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  • 2012

About the statewide series

The Big Muddy Speaker Series is a free monthly series of presentations on Missouri River ecology, history, biology and more by experts in their field. There are now three separate series, in Kansas City, Rocheport and St. Charles.

Presentations are free and open to the public! More about the series →

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