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Duh!! And there I was over thinking the darn thing!!!Lawrence....of Arabia.
Maybe, the Arabia was the third steamboat found by the group. The only thing on display from that first boat was the engine built in 1819 in Louisville and a lid to salt pork barrel. Obviously they didn't say much else if they were the people you described.I still haven't been to this museum. It's still on my list. These steamboat wrecks are buried all up and down the Missouri floodplain. Years ago, an earlier packet was hastily and careless excavated near Boonville. The treasure seekers used high pressure water hoses to blast everything out of the mud. Of course, they effectively destroyed everything in the process. They received incredibly bad press for this and they deserved it. If memory serves, the same group later set about to rectify things. They located and excavated another steamer, and I believe that project was the Arabia. The Arabia has been featured in numerous magazines and is regarded as one of the truly great examples of this sort of archaeology.
Cargo from the excavation forced a new understanding of life in the opening west of the 1850s.
Yes, the first boat sank in about 1820, I believe. Its cargo would have been extremely informative with regard to life in the opening frontier. A small piece of timber, a barrel head, some metal pipe from that boat and a few other items are displayed in the visitors center in Boonville. Pretty sad. But there's no denying these guys did it right with the Arabia. I'm pretty sure they'll do it right with the Malta, too. Here's a link to an article about the first boat:Maybe, the Arabia was the third steamboat found by the group. The only thing on display from that first boat was the engine built in 1819 in Louisville and a lid to salt pork barrel. Obviously they didn't say much else if they were the people you described.