| This was the establishing of steamboat and flatboat communication with New Orleans. |
| Nuttall then headed east to St. Louis with some fur traders and continued on to New Orleans by flatboat. |
| So he turned his flatboat around and headed home to call his lawyer. |
| Cajun boaters invented a flatboat called the bateau, to pass through shallow swamps. |
| 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. |
| The one point was to get the flatboat away from land, and out into the stream. |
