paddlewheel

In the 1810s, soon after giant paddlewheel boats began carting passengers along the rivers that ran from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati to St. Louis, Memphis, through the Mississippi Delta, and all the way down to New Orleans, white entertainers imitating black songs and dances became a common sight on the streets of major cities.

A Renegade History of the United States

It literally bored through the swarm, batting aside zikki like fish caught in a paddlewheel.

Archive 2010-04-01

From the wreck of the paddlewheel steamer, the Winfield Scott, which ran aground on the island in 1853, while making the San Francisco to Panama run with a load of gold prospectors and rats aboard.

T.C. Boyle: Taking Flight

Getty Images June 15, 1904: The General Slocum, a paddlewheel passenger steamer, caught fire while carrying passengers to a church picnic on Long Island.

Remembering New York Area Fire Tragedies

From the wreck of the paddlewheel steamer, the Winfield Scott, which ran aground on the island in 1853, while making the San Francisco to Panama run with a load of gold prospectors and rats aboard.

T.C. Boyle: Taking Flight

Meanwhile, a giant paddlewheel that rose all the way up to the sixth deck anchored the back of the vessel.

Venom

We had a blast day and night, interspersing our gambling exploits with a paddlewheel cruise of Lake Tahoe on the M.S. Dixie and a walking tour of cowboy-town-turned-tourist-tease Virginia City.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters

A small pilothouse stood aft, and a paddlewheel at the stern with a cowl on which crewmen were inclined to drape themselves in calm weather.

Colossus

Karkinnen is brilliant, cute as a button, and makes paddlewheel-boat whistle sounds during sex.

Book review of John Sandford's "Storm Prey"

We had a blast day and night, interspersing our gambling exploits with a paddlewheel cruise of Lake Tahoe on the M.S. Dixie and a walking tour of cowboy-town-turned-tourist-tease Virginia City.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters