| It is a fascinating read and an essential source for anyone researching early steamboats and their social milieu. |
| Warehouses and wharves proliferated, and steamboats and sailing vessels crowded the riverfront. |
| After the Supreme Court decision, new companies immediately began to operate more up-to-date steamboats on the Hudson. |
| Returning to America, Fulton continued developing steamboats and naval weapons until his death. |
| Eight city slickers had come to Montana for a six-day canoe trip down river from Fort Benton, once a frontier town of steamboats and gold miners. |
| I went down by the Nieuwe Haven among old steamboats, and walked along ranks of tall houses built for wool merchants and wine shippers. |
