September 6, 2004, 9:20 p.m.)-- More than 160 years after it sunk in the Red River, researchers are discovering the history of the steamboat Heroine ... February 1838 and made her way down the Ohio ...

The wild Mississippi needed a different kind ... Shreve often lived in St. Louis. By 1830, more than 200 steamboats operated on western rivers, and the number kept growing. In one month in 1836 ...

It’s the biggest steamboat ever built, people who know about such things swear, and when it’s floating on the Mississippi, one of the biggest rivers ever built, something just feels right ...

Lloyd’s 1856 book Lloyd’s Steamboat Directory ... Lloyd’s book sold this terrible recent history of the Mississippi as a romantic feature of the area. The Directory padded out the bloody ...

The fastest trip, however, ever made for such a long distance on the Mississippi, was the one made by the famous steamboat J.M. White, in 1840, from New-Orleans to St. Louis, 1,200 miles.

Here's some news that should float the boat of steamboat aficionados: The paddlewheeler American Queen will again offer overnight trips on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, with some itineraries ...

The last time a steamboat carried passengers in staterooms on an overnight journey on the Mississippi or any of its tributaries was in 2008. That was the year Majestic America Line ceased ...

The churning red paddlewheel propels the pearl-white steamboat along the wide Mississippi River, like a slow-moving time machine. It travels through a slice of Americana that harks back to Mark ...

“Western steamboats showed an appalling accident record,” wrote historian Daniel J. Boorstin in 1965. “A voyage on the Mississippi, it was often said, was far more dangerous than a passage ...