Sentence examples for flatboat from inspiring English sources

The flatboat and keelboat of the Mississippi River arose from specific navigational requirements.

They came by raft, flatboat, and ark (a "raft with a rim"), built and loaded on the left-bank tributaries that were in the forefront of the westward expansion of the United States.

The Jolly Dancer The scene is a flatboat on the Ohio River.

And so, instead of the small, somewhat tipsy rowboat in Leutze's painting, Mr. Kunstler depicts a 60-foot-long flatboat ferry, guided by cable, and crowded with dozens of troops, and cannons and horses.

In Gulf of Mexico waters deemed safe, at least for now, the two metal claws of a weather-beaten flatboat rake the muck below for those prehistoric chunks of desire, oysters.

Ms. Proulx nails the lead singer Kevin Russell's voice — it's an original American instrument, in the moonshine-soaked vein of Levon Helms's — as "like a graft of a carny hustler onto a Missouri River flatboat man, roaring about putting down his brown cow".

By 1811 Louisville had become an important frontier and river-flatboat trading place, and its development was further stimulated that year when Captain Nicholas Roosevelt docked the New Orleans, the first successful steamboat to ply the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.

After the War of 1812, the Wabash basin was rapidly developed by settlers, and the river continued as an important artery of trade, for both flatboats and river steamers.

It soon became a lively agricultural trading community, with its products (wheat, corn [maize], tobacco, livestock, fruits, and vegetables) transported to Cincinnati and New Orleans via freight wagons, river flatboats, and the Miami and Erie Canal boats.

Originally, the Tennessee could be navigated only by flatboats.

In the late 18th century, boatmen who floated down the Mississippi River with flatboats of goods would sell both the goods and the boats and use the trace as an overland route back to the Ohio River valley.