steamboat
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The extension of canals and steamboat travel to some extent complemented, rather than competed with, the road’s livelihood.
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
That night, he had stood alone on the top deck of a steamboat called the River Queen, watching Grant’s big guns shell the Confederate defenders of Petersburg.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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