2001 FIELD SCHOOL
Red River Shipwreck Project
Fort Towson, Oklahoma
July 22 - August 11, 2001

During the summer of 2001 the Oklahoma Historical Society, the P.A.S.T.
Foundation and Indiana University are offering a 3-credit underwater
archaeology field school dealing with the Red River Steamboat Wreck.
Credit is available for both graduate and undergraduate students.

The Oklahoma Historical Society, in conjunction with the P.A.S.T.
Foundation and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, will be excavating
Oklahoma’s first historic shipwreck site during the summer of 2001. The
single-engine side-wheeler, exposed by flooding that changed the river
channel, appears to be the earliest Western Rivers steamboat ever
studied by archaeologists. Much of the wreckage, which lay buried and
preserved under an Oklahoma pasture until the river shifted, is now
visible at low water, including portions of the hull, steam engine, and
the paddlewheel.

For full details, see:

http://web.wtez.net/r/h/rh61158/redriver/Application.htm

The application may be downloaded in RTF format or printed directly from
the website.

DEADLINE MAY 18, 2001