The Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River in Montana was authorized by Congress in 1927, and President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order in October 1933 under the National… Read More
Steve Huffman
The Howard Steamboat Museum at Jeffersonville, Ind., was recently the site of a riverboat model extravaganza. The museum proudly displays an excellent model of the steam towboat Chicot, the generous… Read More
Three steam towboats were built at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1911 for the Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. All were constructed on steel hulls measuring 137.6… Read More
“Grab a pen,” Dan Owen barked gruffly, as if he were still the first mate on a Union Barge Line towboat. Why, you’d have thought he was ordering a deckhand… Read More
