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Flatboats were the most prolific kind of vessel on the Ohio and Mississippi Streams during the early 1800s. A large number of these motorboats descended the two rivers every year, taking not only valuable cargo to New Orleans but also western-bound emigrants to newly opened territories. With the late 1800s, flatboats had completely disappeared, no intact examples were known to exist. That altered in 2000, when local residents found a wreck on the Ohio River shoreline in Illinois. Archaeologist Symbol J. Wagner and his acquaintances from Southern Illinois University or college Carbondale investigated thoroughly and set up that the wreck was a pre-Civil Conflict flatboat, that they named America following a close by town. In The Wreck of the America in Southern Illinois: A Flatboat on the Ohio River, Wagner offers a brief description and general background of flatboats and the various reasons they wrecked - such as poor workmanship and encounters with pirates, storms, stones, and floating trees and shrubs. Wagner describes the remains of the America, how it was made, the artifacts found close by and inside - including pewter spoons, utensils with bone grips, metal keys, and an flat iron felling axe - and the probable cause of its sinking. Wagner concludes with a brief history of the America since its breakthrough in 2000. The e book is released by Southern Illinois University or college Press.
