- of goods.
These flatboats could typically be
salvaged for
around $16 in New Orleans,
recouping some of the
initial investment.
Flatboats carried a variety...
- six years.
Lincoln and some
friends took goods,
including live hogs, by
flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he
first witnessed slavery. Speculation...
- the
Mississippi River watershed. The
river was
filled with steamboats,
flatboats and
sailing ships.
Despite its role in the
slave trade, New
Orleans at...
- Landing,
located below the
bluff from Natchez. This
windstorm tossed 116
flatboats (of the 120 docked at
Natchez that day) into the river,
drowning their...
-
issued out of
Cincinnati were sp****.
Settler migration was
chiefly via
flatboat on the Ohio
River westerly, and by
wagon trails up the Wabash/White River...
- experimentation, and
agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio
River riverboats,
flatboats,
canal boats, and railroads.[citation needed] The
first violent conflicts...
-
shipping goods eastward. The
easiest way to ship
produce was to use a
flatboat to
float it down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to the port of New Orleans...
- at the
confluence of
three major rivers in the
Tennessee Valley brought flatboat and
later steamboat traffic to its
waterfront in the
first half of the...
- who
emerged as a
noted war chief. Te****seh parti****ted in
attacks on
flatboats traveling down the Ohio River,
carrying waves of
immigrants into lands...
-
operations in
August 1942 and sank
numerous smaller Soviet watercraft and
flatboats and ****aulted
enemy bases and
beach fronts until it was
dissolved in the...
