flatboat

Having your flatboat regularly get stuck would be the equivalent today of facing massive traffic jams, or having your car constantly stall out.

Times best sellers: Rinker Buck shares his adventures on a wooden flatboat in “Life On The Mississippi,” a nonfiction best seller.

An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.

In one day, a crew of 16 high-school students pulls up enough clumps of grass from a healthy area to fill two flatboats, then plants the grass along a shoreline or canal mouth.

The jovial figures in Bingham’s 1846 “The Jolly Flatboatmen” are in high spirits, yet they are dancing precariously on the roof of a Missouri flatboat, under which the cargo space looks cramped, dark and ominous.