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| A steamboat race on the Mississippi river. |
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Click image to enlarge, browser's Back to return A steamboat race on the Mississippi river. Steam power continued to be an important component of an inland transportation network tied into the Mississippi system. The number of steamboats in service continued to grow throughout the 1830s and 1840s. Between 1811 and 1880, nearly 6,000 steamboats were built on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; in St. Louis, 3,184 steamboat arrivals were recorded in 1852. Painting by George F. Fuller, lithograph by A. Weingartner (New York, 1859). |
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