Uncovering the Steam Boat Bertrand
Author : Jerome E. Petsche
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Missouri River Antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Jerome E. Petsche
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Missouri River Antiquities
ISBN :
Author : Jerome E. Petsche
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0806151307
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.
Author : Jerome E. Petsche
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN :
Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0806151285
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.
Author : Leslie Perry Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN :
Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Bottles
ISBN :
A Study of 19th century glass and ceramic containers.
Author : National Park Service (Nps)
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781296044091
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Author : De Soto National Wildlife Refuge (Neb. and Iowa). Bertrand Conservation Laboratory
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Bottles
ISBN :
Author : Annalies Corbin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0306461684
This book is a material culture analysis of passengers' belongings found on the steamboats Bertrand and Arabia, which served nineteenth century emigrants traveling west on the Missouri river. The research utilizes documentary sources, photographs, and archaeological artifacts. The book is heavily descriptive and will be regarded as a reference manual for western artifacts and for steamboats that operated on the Missouri river.