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.
- Mr. Grady called a halt to their travel well before sundown, and they poled the flatboat to the shore. Judge deveraux
- “A few months on a flatboat in such splendor will give you time to think and to remember.” Judge deveraux
- Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps.
- So he turned his flatboat around and headed home to call his lawyer.
- I recalled the flatboat captain's warning that Old Thares would smell far worse than the timber fires had. Shaman's Crossing
- Furthermore, the craft in which the visitor paddled out to the flatboat was the very one, as identified by Jethro, which, in some way, had been recaptured from the ranger. The Phantom of the River
- Abraham Lincoln, as a hired hand on a flatboat in 1831, ran aground on a trip down the Mississippi River.
- She staggered backward but managed to hold on to it even though she hit the side of the little building that stood at the far end of the flatboat. Judge deveraux
- By mid-century the rivers were thick with flatboats and keelboats; the former lifted loads up to 100 tons while the latter typically hauled forty-ton cargoes along the shallower streams.
