| Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps. |
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| Nuttall then headed east to St. Louis with some fur traders and continued on to New Orleans by flatboat. |
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| Abraham Lincoln, as a hired hand on a flatboat in 1831, ran aground on a trip down the Mississippi River. |
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| He made plans to make the weeklong journey by flatboat down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Marietta, in Washington County, Ohio. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Washington had spent all week rowing through his neighborhood in a scavenged flatboat. |
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| So he turned his flatboat around and headed home to call his lawyer. |
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| The flatboat and keelboat of the Mississippi River arose from specific navigational requirements. |
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| 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. |
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| And so, instead of the small, somewhat tipsy rowboat in Leutze's painting, Mr. Kunstler depicts a 60-foot-long flatboat ferry, guided by cable, and crowded with dozens of troops, and cannons and horses. |
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| In Gulf of Mexico waters deemed safe, at least for now, the two metal claws of a weather-beaten flatboat rake the muck below for those prehistoric chunks of desire, oysters. |
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| Attached to the trunk by a chain was a half-submerged flatboat. |
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| The Jolly Dancer The scene is a flatboat on the Ohio River. |
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| To the people along the lower Mississippi River, the flatboat men eventually came to be known as Kaintucks, whether or not they hailed from Kentucky. |
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