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Keelboat MANDAN has been in this spot for over 50 years. It was built as a movie prop for 1952's "The Big Sky" starring Kirk Douglas (my cousin is named after him).
from Wiki: A Keel boat, (Keelboat) or Keel-boat is a type of usually long narrow cigar-shaped riverboat, or unsheltered water barge which is sometimes also called a poleboat—that is built about a slight keel and is designed as a boat built for the navigation of rivers, shallow lakes, and sometimes canals that were commonly used in America including use in great numbers by settlers making their way west in the century-plus of wide-open western American frontiers. he process of moving a keelboat upriver was extremely difficult, though current dependent. Most of these keelboats were 50 to 80 feet long and 15 feet wide.
from Wiki: A Keel boat, (Keelboat) or Keel-boat is a type of usually long narrow cigar-shaped riverboat, or unsheltered water barge which is sometimes also called a poleboat—that is built about a slight keel and is designed as a boat built for the navigation of rivers, shallow lakes, and sometimes canals that were commonly used in America including use in great numbers by settlers making their way west in the century-plus of wide-open western American frontiers. he process of moving a keelboat upriver was extremely difficult, though current dependent. Most of these keelboats were 50 to 80 feet long and 15 feet wide.