| Originally, the Tennessee could be navigated only by flatboats. |
| By mid-century the rivers were thick with flatboats and keelboats. |
| They reached Skaguay in a snowstorm, went in dog-sledges over the Chilkoot Pass, and shot the Yukon in flatboats. |
| 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. |
| In the fertile lands on the two sides of Old River, plantations were deeply submerged, and livestock survived 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. |
