steamboat

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 idea, in its early conceptions, included much of what would later make its way to Disneyland — a train, a steamboat and less detailed versions of Main Street and a Frontierland.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

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

In many ways the steamboat was as much a slice of gold rush America as much as it was a slice of the Pacific Northwest.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2022

For example, in 1837 the Mandan Indian tribe, with one of the most elaborate cultures in our Great Plains, contracted smallpox from a steamboat traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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

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

Today, Vicksburg is a destination for faux steamboats and tour buses half-filled with aging Civil War buffs and gamblers drawn to its storied battleground and mildewed casinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 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