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Photographer: Unknown
Taken: undated
Caption: Zeb Pike Drawing on Steamboating Marker
Additional Description: [Caption reads] In 1817, the Zebulon M. Pike was the first steamboat to St. Louis. The Missouri River was considered too dangerous to attempt. Reprinted with permission of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, copyright 1968. Courtesy of State Historical Society of Missouri.
Submitted: August 22, 2011, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p168737
File Size: 0.117 Megabytes

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