Is it legal to collect at Rocky Point Missouri River steamboat landing?

Prohibited, look only. The site lies in the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where searching for or removing objects of antiquity is barred (50 CFR 27.62, ARPA).

What can you find at Rocky Point Missouri River steamboat landing?

Indian Head cents and Seated Liberty coins, cartridge cases from the outlaw and vigilante years, steamboat and ferry hardware, horseshoes, harness buckles, square nails, bottles

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Rocky Point Missouri River steamboat landing

Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Nails and fittings

Buttons and buckles

Also reported: cartridge cases from the outlaw and vigilante years, horseshoes, bottles.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1870s-1936 steamboat landing, ferry and outlaw haunt

Ford and steamboat landing in the Missouri Breaks that shipped freight to the Judith and Little Rocky mining camps and Fort Maginnis, with a store, hotel, two saloons, a stable, blacksmith and ferry in the 1870s and 1880s. It faded when the ferry stopped in the 1920s and ended in 1936 when the Army Corps bought land for Fort Peck Dam.View source →