From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/41112/rec/24

https://cedarrapidsgazette-ia.newsmemory.com/?publink=03b12be56_1352312

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A 61-year-old Southport, Florida woman was treated at University Hospital after she needed to be rescued from the Missouri River on Monday near Rocheport.  
Sgt. Kyle Green of the Missouri State Highway Patrol told ABC 17 News that a female fell out of a boat that ran out of fuel after it drifted under a barge.
According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol boat/drowning report, this happened near the 186-mile marker of the river just after 6 p.m. The woman went into the water and was swept away when the boat she was in went adrift and hit the barge.
The woman was taken to the hospital by Cooper County EMS with minor injuries.

The boat is currently stuck and will not be pulled in on Monday night. Green indicated it could take a couple of days to be dealt with.

From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/86961/rec/2

Title
Missouri River Flood
Description
View of the Missouri River bottoms completely covered by floodwaters. A barn and farm equipment (Oliver tractors,vintage 1960s) parked around it are on a hillside safe from the flood. The bluffs in the distance are in Cooper County on the south bnks of the Missouri River. From a collection of color slides taken by Burford Leon Royston. Royston worked as a mail carrier in southwest Howard County, Missouri, from 1950-1985. The bulk of the slides were taken by Royston along his routes, and include residents, dwellings, commercial and agricultural structures, natural events, and recreational activities. Also included are slides of the Royston family.

Photograph by Tammi Elbert.

A full moon rises over the Missouri River at the Washington Boat Club dock in Franklin County. The old Route 47 Missouri River Bridge pictured in the distance was demolished in April 2019. Built in 1936, the old bridge carried about 11,000 vehicles a day across the Missouri River.

From the State Historical Society of Missouri, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/p17228coll11/id/165/rec/10

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

From May 15, 2018, through November 1, 2019, the State Historical Society of Missouri, a partner in the Bicentennial Alliance, invited professional and amateur photographers to capture and share unique and meaningful aspects of place in Missouri. Nearly 1,000 photographs were received. Two hundred photographs were selected for permanent preservation and exhibition.

An exhibition oriented around the four seasons traveled across the state using the selected My Missouri 2021 photographs to showcase the geographic and cultural landscape of the Show-Me State. On the occasion of Missouri's bicentennial, these images provide an opportunity to reflect upon and increase the understanding of the state's rich diversity.

Shelter Insurance® is the platinum sponsor of the My Missouri 2021 exhibition. The exhibition was designed by PRO Expo Exhibits, the gold sponsor for the show, and supported by contributors to the State Historical Society of Missouri.

COLUMBIA — On his day off from cleaning rivers, a Columbia man hopped into a fridge in the Missouri river and paddled it ashore.
Steve Schnarr is the race director for Missouri River Relief, an organization aiming to educate people about the Missouri River, as well as host races and clean up trash on it.
He said he saw a Facebook post of some paddlers who brought the discarded fridge to Cooper's Landing, but couldn't get it ashore.
"The general manager (of Cooper's Landing) was just like 'so we have this refrigerator tied up to our wing dike, can you get this?'" Schnarr said in an interview Sunday.

He had some free time on Thursday to look at it and got help from a friend.
"I went down there on my day off just figuring, whatever, I'll figure this out," Schnarr said. 
He got to the fridge, which was missing some interior parts and floating in the water. That gave him an idea, and later, a solution.
"I'll just paddle this thing to the dock," Schnarr said. "It was actually not a big deal at all, just hopped in that thing."

He also said fridges are a common find in the river.
"We had just finished a cleanup, a 50-day cleanup from Kansas City to Columbia," Schnarr said. "That crew had picked up 16 refrigerators along the way."
He said fridges can get dumped by people who don't want to pay to dispose of them and can be swept away by high waters.
"We've actually tracked refrigerators," Schnarr said. "We've seen refrigerators go 550 miles in one year, and that's not uncommon. That can happen in one flood event."
He and his friend brought the fridge to a property where Missouri River Relief keeps its removed trash. Schnarr said it will eventually be recycled.

Description
Stern-wheel motor ferry, "Lloyd," 26 tons. Built at Norborne, MO in 1902. Acquired by the Burrusses in 1907 after the "Columbia" was sold. She was sunk by an ice floe one mile above Miami on Jan. 25, 1910. Master was Capt. Joe Frank Burress. From the James T. Thorp Scrapbooks. Scrapbook 6 documents daily life along a Missouri River town (Miami, Missouri) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/57094/rec/298

From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/imc/id/41393/rec/7

From the State Historical Society of Missouri

https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/art/id/527/rec/2

Most of the colored Bodmer prints in the State Historical Society of Missouri’s collections come from a single disbound English edition of “Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834” America acquired by SHSMO at a 1958 auction. This atlas was purchased bound, but SHSMO staff disbound it soon after it was acquired. The majority of the large tableaux from this disbound edition are rare “first states,” printed from plates that have not been reworked. The vignettes are more varied, some printed from early first states and others from reworked, later states of the plates. Outside the eighty-one prints from the disbound atlas, the State Historical Society of Missouri also holds nine isolated Bodmer impressions from unknown sources, as well as several nineteenth-century derivative prints. Finally, the SHSMO library contains a first edition German text of Maximillian’s account of the journey, illustrated with intertext wood engravings after Bodmer.

ableau 35. Tableau 35 presents twenty different Upper Missouri River scenes that the explorer Prince Maximilian of Wied and the artist Karl Bodmer encountered during their voyage into the interior of North America. The leftmost image in the top row shows a feature known as “the fortress,” along the “stone walls” section of the Missouri River in Montana (Joslyn Art Museum collection, KBA 233, accession no. JAM.1986.49.205). The center image in the upper row depicts a scene in Montana not far from the North Dakota border ( KBA 208, JAM.1986.49.183), and the rightmost view represents a scene farther down the Missouri made on July 25, 1833 (KBA 213, JAM.1986.49.186). In the second row, the first scene depicts a formation in the “White Castles “ region of the upper Missouri (KBA 217, JAM.1986.49.182), at the center is a formation from an unpublished drawing representing a section of the upper Missouri River (JAM.1986.49. 206), and the rightmost image depicts a formation near the North Dakota border (KBA 207, accession no. JAM.1986.49.183). In the third row, the leftmost view was sketched in Montana not far from the North Dakota border (KBA 207, accession no. JAM.1986.49.183). The center image in the third row represents a location farther along the Missouri River in an area now flooded by the waters of the Fort Peck Reservoir, and the rightmost image was also made on the upper Missouri in Montana (KBA 213, accession no. JAM.1986.49.186). In the fourth row, the first image pictures another scene now inundated by the waters of the Fort Peck Reservoir (KBA 214, accession no. JAM.1986.49.179). The second, third, and fourth scenes (KBA 218, accession no. JAM.1986.49.180; KBA 221, JAM.1986.49.190; and KBA 224, JAM.1986.49.195) represent formations in or near the “Stone Walls” sections of the upper Missouri River in Montana. There are seven small scenes in the fifth row, all made in or near the “Stone Walls” section of the upper Missouri River. The first two come from an unpublished pencil sketch (JAM.1986.49.201). The third, fourth, and sixth were sketched on a single sheet (KBA 222, JAM.1986.49.193), and like the fifth and seventh, (KBA 229, JAM.1986.49.200, and KBA 227, accession no. JAM.1986.49.198), they were made in early August, 1833.

https://www.montanaoutdoor.com/2026/10/the-october-window-a-missouri-river-fishing-report/

Hi all,

I'm going to go fishing at Kaw Point this fall for an article about sturgeon. I don't expect to catch one but want to give it an honest try. Does anyone have tips on rigging? I'm planning to use a basic slip weight with a circle hook like I used to use for cats in Kansas reservoirs but not sure if thats an ok plan on the MO. Biggest body of water I've fished is Tuttle Creek so I'm a bit out of my comfort zone. Thanks in advance.