1. The Lansing Explosion christianelliott16@augustana.edu 2:49

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. I’ve been talking about steamboat explosions, which were common on the Upper Mississippi throughout the 19 th century, but there is nothing to show you, no photograph of a single one: only the occasional shot of what had been a boat.

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