Rivers are graveyards of steamboat skeletons

Monday, April 22, 2002

ST. LOUIS -- His boots caked in the shoreline muck befitting the Missouri River's pseudonym as the "Big Muddy," Steve Dasovich gingerly climbs about the carcass of a 19th-century steamboat and thinks death becomes her.

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