| By mid-century the rivers were thick with flatboats and keelboats. |
| The Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, once a favorite of my children, is dedicated to the back end of plantation life, with reconstructed slave cabins, antiquated farm equipment, flatboats and plantation bells. |
| They reached Skaguay in a snowstorm, went in dog-sledges over the Chilkoot Pass, and shot the Yukon in flatboats. |
| Steamboat passengers were appalled at the wan, shivering families along the river, occasionally seen living on flatboats as they waited for flood waters to recede. |
| In the fertile lands on the two sides of Old River, plantations were deeply submerged, and livestock survived in flatboats. |
| In the late 18th century, boatmen who floated down the Mississippi River with flatboats of goods would sell both the goods and the boats and use the trace as an overland route back to the Ohio River valley. |
