LA CROSSE (AP) — A 44-year-old steamboat that once roamed the Mississippi River is in the midst of a painstaking restoration to save the historic vessel. The Julia Belle Swain has been getting work ...
Fourteen years after Shreves first trip to New Orleans, 230 steamboats were working on Midwestern rivers; by 1842, there would be 450. The Virginia, in May 1823, was the first boat to pick its way ...
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