page_title: Elk (sternwheeler 1857)
section_title: Construction and owners
hierarchical_section_title: Elk (sternwheeler 1857) / Construction and owners
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement for steamer Elk, placed 1858.
context_page_description: Elk was a stern-wheel driven steamboat built on the Willamette River in 1857 at Canemah, Oregon. This steamboat is chiefly remembered for its destruction by a boiler explosion in which by good fortune no one was seriously hurt. A folklore tale later arose about this disaster.
context_section_description: Elk was built in 1857 at Canemah, Oregon by Capt. Christopher (or Christian) E. Sweitzer 1829-1860), François X. Matthieu, George A. Pease (1830-1919), and John Marshall Jacob Kamm also held a share of the vessel.
caption: Advertisement for the new steamer Elk, placed October 16, 1858
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