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The Steamboat Pilot & Today is an American newspaper serving Routt County, Colorado, and owned by Swift Communications.It is a free tabloid published daily. [2]As of 2011, the Steamboat Pilot & Today has been named the top newspaper in its circulation class eight times in nine years by the Colorado Press Association.
Horace Ezra Bixby (May 8, 1826 – August 1, 1912) was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system from the late 1840s until his death in 1912. [1] Bixby is notable in his own right for his high standing in his profession, for his technical contributions to it, and for his service in the American Civil War.
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
In 1883, as Missouri steamboat traffic declined with the expansion of railroad lines through the Dakota Territory and into the Montana Territory, Marsh sold the W.J. Behan and moved from Bismarck to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to St. Louis. There were still opportunities for a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, and Marsh continued to work.
In the '70s, Hartford earned his steamboat pilot's license, which he used to keep close to the river he loved; for many years, he worked as a pilot on the steamboat Julia Belle Swain during the summers. He also worked as a towboat pilot on the Mississippi, Illinois, and Tennessee Rivers. During his later years, he came back to the river every ...
In 1884 James organized the Steamboat Springs Town Company with the financial backing of investors from Boulder. [7] With James as manager, the company laid out the town, sold lots, built a bathhouse, and promoted the town in diverse ways such as running the quarry and financing the first printing presses for the Steamboat Pilot newspaper.
Callie M. Leach French ("Aunt Callie" 1861–1935) [1] was an American steamboat captain and pilot. For much of her career as a captain, she worked with her husband, towing showboats along the Ohio, Monogahela and Mississippi Rivers. She played the calliope, cooked, sewed, and wrote jokes for the showboat theater.
Blanche Douglass Leathers (1860 - January 26, 1940) was the first woman master and a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her nicknames include "little captain," [1] the "angel of the Mississippi" and the "lady skipper." [2]