The number of lives which have been lost by explosions on board of steamboats during the present year has been much less, we are happy to state, than during any previous year since the new law of ...

"And it's better than anything he envisioned. You wouldn't think that books about steamboats would be pretty, but these are. I'm really delighted with them." Her husband, she said, grew up at the ...

The Orleans was very different in construction from the steamboats in these days. She was furnished with a propelling wheel at the stern, and two masts; for Mr. FULTON believed, at that time ...

Looking at the shallow twists and turns of the Red River, its hard to imagine that steam powered paddlewheel boats were once the most important transportation link between St. Paul, MN, and ...

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Related HDSI Episode: The Sultana Investigation It was April of 1865. The Civil War was newly ended, and steamboats were regularly traveling up the Mississippi River to take soldiers back to their ...