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After the development of railroads, passenger traffic gradually switched to this faster form of transportation, but steamboats continued to serve Mississippi River commerce into the early 20th century. A small number of steamboats are still used for tourist excursions in the 21st century.
Henry Miller Shreve (October 21, 1785 – March 6, 1851) was an American inventor and steamboat captain who removed obstructions to navigation of the Mississippi, Ohio and Red rivers.
Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck) [1] [2] [3] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
"Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defenses of the Western and Southwestern Frontier" published 1837, showing west Mississippi, Baton Rouge, and the Arkansas River and approximate indigenous territories at that time (NARA 77452208) The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and treaties involving Jackson before his presidency displaced most of the major tribes of the Southeast from their traditional ...
History; United States; Name: Arabia: Owner: Captain William Terrill and William Boyd: Operator: William Terrill: Route: Ohio River, Mississippi River, and the Missouri River: Way number: ed: Laid down: 1853: Out of service: September 5, 1856: Identification: In 1897, there was an 'expedition' to the buried ship to recover a large amount of ...
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]
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In 1880, young Scrooge McDuck has travelled to America to seek his fortune. Making his way to New Orleans, he looks up his Uncle Angus "Pothole" McDuck, and helps him as a deckhand on his steamboat alongside the inventor and engineer Ratchet Gearloose, racing to be first to a site along the Mississippi River to salvage a shipment of gold from a ship that sank 30 years earlier while ...