Most terrible steamboat disaster in history, probably, was the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union veterans died—yet the tragedy got very few headlines.
How the Saskatchewan-Montana prairie country looked a generation ago, and what it meant to a youngster who lived there
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