steamboat

As America expanded by building canals, steamboats and early railroads, demand soared for wage labor in factories, transportation and among office workers like clerks.

And then finally somebody shouted and we all looked to see the steamboat towing the pontoon boat up the river.

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.

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.

The classic cartoon stars the beloved mascot as the whistling, rascally pilot of a steamboat floating down a river.