steamboat
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By March, 1850, Scientific American declared: “Where the steamboat goes, there the wilderness disappears.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The classic cartoon stars the beloved mascot as the whistling, rascally pilot of a steamboat floating down a river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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
Developments in transportation and communications technology, especially the locomotive, steamboat, and telegraph, transformed the way their citizens lived, traveled, and worked.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
And then finally somebody shouted and we all looked to see the steamboat towing the pontoon boat up the river.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
The number of steamboats on Western U.S. rivers grew to 740 by 1850 from 17 in 1817.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
Treichel describes a wide variety of creations from the children, ranging from harbor ships to steamboats.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 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
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
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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