Steamboats played a crucial role in the growth of Cape Girardeau in the 19th Century, but traveling by steamboat was a risky proposition indeed. Boiler explosions, collisions, fires, sandbars and ...

Tall Stacks is fondly remembered by many in Cincinnati. The clock turned back to the 1800s and the riverfront was once against bustling with steamboats and the shrill whistle of the calliope. The ...

Historical accounts describe how steamboats once plied the Minnesota River as far up as the Upper Sioux Agency near Granite Falls. These steam-propelled vessels carried passengers and freight to the ...

Before the railroad began to wind its way through the quaint villages of the North Shore, the major source of transportation was the sidewheel steamboat in the early 1800s. Steamboat service ignited ...

Two steamboat enthusiasts in their fourth day toot-tooting around Lake Hopatcong are apparently drawing plenty of attention. “It’s like being zoo animals,” Glenn Papp said Monday. Papp, 34, and his ...

The arrival of the first steamboat in Arkansas in 1820 ushered in an era of commerce and travel for the newly created territory. Within a few years, it was possible to make a trip from Little Rock or ...

HUNTINGTON — The largest river steamboat ever built docked in Huntington on Thursday morning. The American Queen, which is designed like an 1800s steamboat with modern amenities, spent the day docked ...

OBERT, Neb. -- In an area where horse-drawn covered wagons grace highway signs, one more glimpse into days past could be seen peeking out from the cloudy brown waters of the Missouri River on Saturday ...

From the founding of Quincy in 1822 by John Wood, the town grew tremendously. By the 1840 census 2,300 people had braved the trip from the east to settle the Mississippi town on the edge of ...

Men and women danced to the Luft’s String Orchestra on a trip down the Susquehanna River on the steamboat “Susquehanna Greyhound.” The private excursion was hosted by the Centennial Social Club of ...