Thanks for the interesting trivia on the Delta Queen, Miz Fontaine. I recollect from my childhood summers in Wabasha Co., Minn., seeing her dock at Wabasha, Read's Landing, Lake City, and Red Wing many a time.

She is truly the queen of that river. Lovely boat.

And so long as we're posting links to info on steamboats, etc., well...I was going to be all clever and go out and find a web page about Missouri River steamboat culture, but...well...I couldn't find one. But, my pappy did put together the pretty much definitive bibliography on SoDak history, so I'll look up some references tonight.

Needless to say, my representation of furtrade boats on that other thread is probably not period-authentic, or for that matter, period-specific (mind you, it's not entirely clear what period our boat is s'posed to be in anyway), as I was basically making it up as I went along.

Chris