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...r and conspiracy theorists Edwin Jay Quinby and his book, "A Few Glimpses of the Passing Scene: Involving the Strange Combination of Steam Calliopes, Steamboats, Pipe Organs, Telegraphs, Cables, Radio, Electric Railroads and Gyro Monorails."...

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...s to the Gulf water from fifty four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels.... ...and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers. But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to abs... ...e has located himself in the very best place he could have found to fish for steamboats; that tall dead tree, with a single living branch, is not goin... ...ges had been two hundred and fifty dollars a month; but curiously enough, as steamboats multi Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 88 plied and bu... ...ve. Now came another perfectly logical result. The outsiders began to ground steamboats, sink them, and get into all sorts of trouble, whereas acciden... ...iness, also. It not only insured the lives of its members, but took risks on steamboats. The organization seemed indestructible. It was the tight est... ... windlass connected with every forehatch, from one end of that long array of steamboats to the other, was keeping up a deafening whiz and whir, loweri... ... ing all the air. People, people everywhere; the shores, the house tops, the steamboats, the ships, are packed with them, and you know that the border... ...YEARS’ ABSENCE, I felt a very strong desire to see the river again, and the steamboats, and such of the boys as might be left; so I resolved to go ou...

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... as if it had animal life—”these three years. We think he doesn’t like the steamboats. The very last time I seed the old chap he was a- goin’ up afore...

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...n expedition to Margate, but he has great doubts of those new gimcracks, the steamboats, and indeed thinks himself too advanced in life to undertake s...

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... I could; but of which it will be sufficient to remark that blowings up in steamboats and breakings down in coaches were among the least. But, having... ...point was Cin cinnati: and as this was a steamboat journey, and west ern steamboats usually blow up one or two a week in the season, it was advisabl... ...AMBOAT. CINCINNATI THE M ESSENGER WAS ONE among a crowd of high pressure steamboats, clustered together by a wharf side, which, looked down upon fro... ...imes very gravely recommended to keep as far aft as possible, ‘because the steamboats generally blew up forward.’ Nor was this an unnecessary caution,... ...quiet time of sunset, though we often tried. Queenston, at which place the steamboats start for Toronto (or I should rather say at which place they ca... ...being rendered so dangerous and difficult in the interval, by rapids, that steamboats do not make the passage. The number and length of those portages... ... but a day’s leap from barren winter, to the blooming youth of summer. The steamboats to Quebec perform the journey in the night; that is to say, they... ...it is matter of deep interest to be their fellow passenger on one of these steamboats, and mingling with the concourse, see and hear them unob served... ...d happiness which honest industry may earn: were very great surprises. The steamboats on the lakes, in their conveniences, cleanliness, and safety; in...

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...hat the Major had been out to get a little information about railroads and steamboats, as our boy was coming home for his Midsummer holidays next day ...

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...below Rouen. Here the next morning (10th), it was met by the flo- tilla of steamboats of the Upper Seine, consisting of the three “Dorades,” the three...

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...y T elegraph: From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .......... ...oing on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldly coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branc... ... them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationali- ties, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the...

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...wn the Lower Missis sippi to that farm in Arkansaw without having to change steamboats at St. Louis; not so very much short of a thousand miles at on...

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... nicety, we may know from their rash exposure of themselves in overcrowded steamboats, and unsafe conveyances and places of all kinds. And I cannot he... ...ove ment in it, such changes of light upon the sails of ships and wake of steamboats, such dazzling gleams of silver far out at sea, such fresh touch... ...orning than, fifty years ago, all Europe saw in a week. Looking at trains, steamboats, sick travellers, and luggage, is our great Pavilionstone recrea...

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...anybody running across us. We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore, and up bound steamboats fight th... ...d ways off. When I came in sight of the log store and the woodpile where the steamboats lands I worked along under the trees and brush till I got to ... ...thick fog, and the rafts and things that went by was beating tin pans so the steamboats wouldn’t run over them. A scow or a raft went by so close we ...

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... can’t trade without using some kind of craft on that lot of fresh wa- ter—steamboats! Why shouldn’t I try to get charge of one. I went on along Fleet...

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... PLACE, in right of its good inn on the bank of the river, and the little steamboats, gay with green and red paint, that come and go upon it: which m... ... Lyons: which you may reach, if you will, in one of the before men tioned steamboats, in eight hours. What a city Lyons is! T alk about people feelin...

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...st the ground, that the exactest simile I can devise is to compare them to ant-deposits of granulated dirt overshadowed by the huge bulk of a cathedra... ...d curious. Counties, towns, hilly ribs and ridges, wide stretches of green meadow, great forest tracts, winding streams, a dozen blue lakes, a block o... ...fallen and lodged in slight depressions, conform- able to their shapes, among the moss-beds and the smooth levels of dainty green farm-land; the micro...

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...hich was ungloved, looked hardly less white. Now, as the Fidèle, like most steamboats, was upon deck a little soot-streaked here and there, especially... ...his land, and especially in these parts of it, some stories are told about steamboats and railroads fitted to make one a little appre- hensive, yet, I...

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... P . his full revenge when I come to dis- cuss the more recent enormity of steamboats; meanwhile, I shall only say of both these modes of conveyance, ... ... MacLeish was one of a race of post-boys whom, I suppose, mail-coaches and steamboats have put out of fash- ion. They were to be found chiefly at Pert...

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...k Smoke. Until about midday the Pool of London was an astonish- ing scene. Steamboats and shipping of all sorts lay there, tempted by the enormous sum...

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...eel crushed before we reached Zurich. He argued in railway trains, in lake steamboats, he had argued away for me the obligatory sunrise on the Righi, ...

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...tering dandies in watering-places ogling the women, watch- ing eagerly for steamboats and stage-coaches as if their lives depended upon them, and stru...

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...ing the town in a half moon curve, clothed with forests from foot to summit. Steamboats passed up and down every hour or so. Those belonging to the li...