Don Bloom...Woodbine Twiner editor, looks at a restored black powder keg from the Bertrand. Lab Director Ronald Switzer of the DeSoto Refuge showed about 50 persons around his lab Friday during the unveiling of development plans for the refuge.
DeSoto Refuge Manager Jim Salyer...explains the proposed Bertrand Visitor Center during the unveiling of development plans for the National Wildlife Refuge which includes the 1865 steamship Bertrand. He points to a model of the Bertrand Cargo…
Two years of research...and hundreds of field drawings have resulted in this artist's version of what the Missouri steamboat Bertrand looked like in 1864.
Champagne...aboard the Bertrand by now is a bit overaged. James Salyer, manager of the De Soto Bend Wildlife Refuge, studies one of the bottles still containing the liquid. He stands in the storeroom with the many items yet to be processed in the…
Photograph taken by Gary Newman of the sculpture 'The Council of War'. Statue was given to Offutt Air Force Base in exchange for 'Boy with leaking boot'.
"Here Lies The Bertrand" is the heading on the wooden tombstone marking the spot where the 100-year-old boat rests 12 feet below water on De Soto National Wildlife Refuge. The marker, designed by Refuge Manager James Salyer, shown with the…
Sketching A Bertrand Artifact...is Barbara Daniels, lab supervisor, who says the covered candy dish is still a perfect piece of glass after over a hundred years under the Missouri River.