steamboat

By March, 1850, Scientific American declared: “Where the steamboat goes, there the wilderness disappears.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

So did Jean Sherrard and I. Indirectly, the needs and wants of us and our collective forebears are why this section of the Snoqualmie River hasn’t seen a paddle-driven steamboat in well over a century.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 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

Early one morning a few days later, he left for Easton Point where he could catch a steamboat to Baltimore.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

“Too many people that don’t know Mississippi think of it as a river, steamboats and some old guy strumming a banjo on a broken porch,” says Mr. Carswell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 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

Treichel describes a wide variety of creations from the children, ranging from harbor ships to steamboats.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2023

The lake, which was once navigated by steamboats, had evaporated into dusty salt flats after the aqueduct was completed in 1913.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

The drifting steamboats resembled primordial creatures that the winter chill had lured to the surface.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros