steamboat
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The extension of canals and steamboat travel to some extent complemented, rather than competed with, the road’s livelihood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The charge is a pre-Civil War statute colloquially known as seaman’s manslaughter that was designed to hold steamboat captains and crew responsible for maritime disasters.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
The famous Delta Queen steamboat that now plies the Mississippi was built in Stockton to move passengers and freight in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 2023
They’re going to tow it behind a steamboat.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
As America expanded by building canals, steamboats and early railroads, demand soared for wage labor in factories, transportation and among office workers like clerks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Bucky would tell you that the hotel was built in 1847 and guests originally traveled by steamboats to enjoy their holiday by the bay.
From Salon ● May 4, 2023
It contains multiple anachronistic details, such as a reference to steamboats and regulations for the care and feeding of livestock being transported through the city.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
In the mid-1800s, as white settlers moved west, steamboats chugged up the lower Colorado River, paddlewheels turning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
Hundreds of clippers, schooners, sloops, barges, ferries, and steamboats raised and lowered their flags to honor the Arctic heroes.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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