steamboat

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

The body was transferred from the wagon to a rowboat, then to a steamboat, which would then take them north to Washington.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

“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

In the late 19th century, steamboats, also called stern-wheelers, were part of Puget Sound’s celebrated Mosquito Fleet and a prime mode of transport for hops, timber and people in rural waterways.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

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

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

“Up in the Dakotas, some of them farms are so big, they have their own stern-wheel steamboats to carry their wheat to their own elevators at Fargo,” I told Dad.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck