steamboat
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The steamboat reversed this flow, reshaping the antebellum economy decades before the railroad.
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
It would take the cavalry, alerted by telegraph and traveling by steamboat, just one day to travel that distance.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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