Preliminary assessment of a wreck in the Red River, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, USA |
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| Authors: | William B. Lees J. Barto Arnold III |
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| Affiliation: | Oklahoma Historical Society, 2100 North Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105, USA;Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University, P.O. Drawer HG, College Station, Texas 77841, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports the initial recording of an early riverboat wreck located in the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas. The wreck is probably the Caddo lost in 1842. The visible wreckage is described and the history of the Caddo is discussed. This is the earliest western rivers steamboat investigated by archaeologists to date. |
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| Keywords: | steam power great rift western rivers |
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