steamboat

The steamboat reversed this flow, reshaping the antebellum economy decades before the railroad.

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

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

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

My favorite is the picture of a steamboat churning up the Mississippi.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

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

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

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