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Figures Figure 1. The steamboat Montana on the Missouri River, n.d. xx Figure 2. Steamboat wreckage near St. Charles, Missouri, in June 2002 3 Figure 3. The wreck site in June of 2002 prior to investigation 4 Figure 4. ECU graduate students mapping engine rails and guides 6 Figure 5. Map of U.S. waterways to the West 13 Figure 6. The Wyoming and Dacotah on the Missouri River 15 Figure 7. The Montana after the tornado damage in 1879 16 Figure 8. The saloon on the Ida Reese 18 Figure 9. The saloon of the Montana 18 Figure 10. The Montana docked at St. Charles, Missouri, ca. 1880 19 Figure 11. The Montana during salvage near St. Charles, Missouri, 1884 20 Figure 12. The Montana being salvaged in 1884 21 Figure 13. The wreck site in June 2002 22 Figure 14. Wreck site looking forward 23 Figure 15. ECU begins excavations in September 2002 24 Figure 16. Engine guides and rails 24 Figure 17. 1892 Missouri River Commission Map of the St. Charles, Missouri, area 26 Figure 18. Excavations at wreck site 27 Figure 19. Montana wreck site across from St. Charles, Missouri 53 Figure 20. Excavation of barrel at the wreck site 54 Figure 21. Brick and artifact scatter 54 Figure 22. Steel cable baseline 55 Figure 23. Site mapping at the Montana 55 ix Figure 24. Steamboat Montana site in plan view 58 Figure 25. Montana remains plotted against the outline of the original hull 58 Figure 26. Model reconstruction of Montana’s stern 66 Figure 27. Excavations in the stern of the wreck 67 Figure 28. Interior of the stern 67 Figure 29. Drawing of the skeg assembly 68 Figure 30. Skeg and bustle on the Montana 69 Figure 31. Portside skeg and bustle in model reconstruction 69 Figure 32. Port master rudder during excavation 71 Figure 33. Excavation of port slave rudder 71 Figure 34. Drawings of master and slave rudders 72 Figure 35. Cross section diagram of Montana 74 Figure 36. Model reconstruction of Montana’s interior 76 Figure 37. Port side of the wreck 76 Figure 38. Longitudinal bilge stringers 77 Figure 39. Bilge keelson and hogging stringers on the port side 78 Figure 40. Model of a double hogging truss used on western river stern-wheelers 81 Figure 41. Hogging brace and chain attached to a hogging stringer 88 Figure 42. Montana’s stern counter or bustle with transom and cylinder timbers 90 Figure 43. Cylinder-timber engine bed, showing pylon support with through bolts 95 Figure 44. Model of the Montana 96 Figure 45. Stern paddlewheel as it sits at the wreck location today 99 Figure 46. Portside cutaway view of stern apron and cylinder timbers 100 Figure 47. Drawing of Montana’s stern paddlewheel 101 Figure 48. Model of twin cylinder horizontal engines 110 Figure 49. The Montana during salvage, 1884 113 Figure 50. Artist’s rendition of the Montana 115   · Figures ...

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