On April 1, 1865, the Steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St.
This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and.
For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact.
The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over.
Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha.
On April 1, 1865, the Steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St