Steamboats now strike us as quaint curiosities, things only children or unadventuresome nostalgia buffs can get much of a charge from. But when ships with no sails first appeared, decked out instead ...
Steamboat accidents in the middle 1800s to the early 1900s have been a topic of many of my columns since 1984 when I began. The 1856 railroad bridge built to connect Davenport with the island across ...
During the 19th century, hundreds of steamboats traversed America’s waterways, carrying passengers faster and more luxuriously than ever before. “The steamboat was the first American invention of ...
Rolling (and rowing) on the river:Keel boats preceded steamboats as cargo ‘kings’ of the Mississippi
In May 1823, the Virginia became the first steamboat to reach Fort Snelling at the junction of the present-day Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Prior to that, most travel on the upper Mississippi ...
LA CROSSE, Wis. — A 44-year-old steamboat that once roamed the Mississippi River is in the midst of a painstaking restoration to save the historic vessel. The Julia Belle Swain has been getting work ...
Today is Thursday, July 25, the 207th day of 2024. There are 159 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On July 25, 1972, the notorious ...
If you're an American, you've somehow been touched by the Mississippi River. From the musings of Mark Twain to the birth of the blues and Dixieland jazz, the Mississippi is part of the patchwork of ...
On the Fourth of July in Janesville 165 years ago a Mississippi steamboat arrived on the Rock River. But the dream of explosive growth of navigation to the Mississippi fizzled out because of shallow ...
The Mississippi steamboat replica Liberty BelleÓ sails past Big Thunder Mountain Railroad during technical rehearsal at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Thursday, February 4, 2021, on the eve ...
Clarke C. "Doc" Hawley was there as the captain barking out orders on a megaphone 40 years ago when the Natchez steamboat launched its maiden voyage on April 13, 1975. "I thought, hell, this would be ...
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