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

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

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

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

In the mid-1800s, as white settlers moved west, steamboats chugged up the lower Colorado River, paddlewheels turning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

As a series of steamboats and trains carried Elisha’s body from Louisiana to Pennsylvania, thousands of Americans stood on riverbanks and alongside railroad tracks weeping, hats in hands, hands over hearts.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock