How To Use flatboat In A Sentence
- Before the advent of the steamboat in 1818, it could take as long as a year for a flatboat to travel from New Orleans to Nashville.
- At the same time, she saved the lives of a number of soldiers who were crossing in a flatboat that sank while she and her children were in it.
- In the third week, they pulled the flatboat half out of the water and began a trek inland to see some ruins that Mr. Grady had heard about. Judge deveraux
- A central character in the tale is Reuben Kemper, who came down the Mississippi from the Ohio Territory in a merchandise-laden flatboat, accompanied by a business partner, John Smith. When the Bayou Broke Away
- The flatboat is the second of four projects identified as essential to the long-term growth of the Netherland Inn complex. Kingsport Times News - Daily 5
- He made plans to make the weeklong journey by flatboat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Marietta, in Washington County, Ohio.
- Cay was in bed asleep, dreaming about being on the flatboat and floating down the calm, peaceful Florida river. Judge deveraux
- Grady is to bring the flatboat with more supplies, and we leave early tomorrow. Judge deveraux
- Flatboatmen make fast, towards dusk, near the cottonwood or pekan-trees; Walt Whitman
- While traveling west with his family on a flatboat in 1817, he noticed through the cracks in the deck the arm of a child who was drowning beneath the raft.
