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Hidden Cottonwood Snags Destroyed 300 Missouri River Steamboats
The Missouri River was once America’s deadliest highway.
Between 1819 and 1895, it claimed 400 steamboats, with 300 lost to “snags” – fallen trees lurking just below the surface.
These hidden killers, mostly cottonwoods stuck in the muddy bottom, pointed downstream like spears. Some even moved up and down with the current, vanishing then rising to strike…