Just as the little flotilla of clumsy flatboats was caught by the rapid current, the landscape was darkened by an eclipse of the sun.
Before sawmills became common, lumber was a precious commodity, and hundreds of pioneer cabins in the Ohio Valley were built partly or wholly of the boards and timbers taken from the flatboats of their owners.
The flatboats were put in use by the enemy to remove captured property.
The current was too strong and river too wide to permit the bridge to be used, and flatboats had to be brought into requisition.
At Mobile, the McDonough was dismissed, and plans were at once adopted to provide flatboats and barges to convey the company up the winding Tombigbee to their future home among the wilds of Western Alabama.
For a long period, only the awkward barges and flatboatswere used.
Simultaneous with this onslaught, a division of howitzer flatboats was to throw shot into the port.
On the night of the fourth a fleet of flatboats passed above the town with the baggage and stores.
There were nine hundred bateaux, a hundred and thirty-five whaleboats, and a large number of heavy flatboats carrying the artillery.
A fleet of flatboatswas also sent thither, and twelve hundred troops marched overland to embark in them, under Brigadier Murray.
Behind them all came the bateaux, loaded with stores and baggage, and the heavy flatboats that carried the artillery, while a rear-guard of provincials and regulars closed the long procession.
The wharf was lined with flatboatsloaded with salt for 'Kasky and furs for New Orleans.
During the June rise more than three hundred flatboats arrived at the Falls loaded with wagons; for months long trains were departing from Louisville with these people bound for the interior.
Acres of flatboats lay freighted on the dimpling Ohio.
On one of those flatboats crowding the wharf that morning came happy Pierre Menard, the most illustrious citizen of Kaskaskia, with his bride of a day, Angelique Saucier.
In May they started down the Ohio in flatboats to undertake the allotted task.
In the days of keel-boats and flatboats conditions changed and there was a "captain" of his boat, and the second generation of river-men were accustomed to obey orders of superiors.
Western Pennsylvania filled rapidly with settlers, and soon pioneers began to float down the Ohio in flatboats and build their homes on the soil of the Northwest Territory.
The long siege of Boonesborough and the other attacks of the preceding year, together with more recent assaults upon flatboats descending the Ohio, had strongly disposed the Kentuckians to retaliate on the Shawnese.
At Athabasca Landing I found it impossible to buy proper boats and I lost considerable time in making two large flatboats patterned after the Hudson's Bay Company's batteaux.
You know, at the Grand Rapids these flatboatsought to be unloaded.
The warehouses were under government supervision and inspection as early as 1795, and innumerable flatboats were already bearing cargoes of bright leaf southward in the last decade of the century.
Marietta, Ohio, founded in 1788 by Revolutionary officers from New England, became the metropolis of the rich Muskingum River district, which was presently sending many flatboats southward.
The number of flatboats and keel-boats is beyond calculation.
The flatboats were demolished and used as fire-wood.
Twenty or thirty thousand of these westerners on flatboats could come down the river and sweep everything before them.
Such produce as corn-meal, flour, pork, and lumber had to go on rafts or flatboats down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans.
We see shipping of all sorts about the town--barges and flatboats along the river bank, merchant vessels in the harbor, and farther down some war-ships.
A number of flatboats lay in the backwater behind the bend and a quantity of ties corded along the bank indicated a loading-place, but no one seemed to be doing any loading.
You and your gang are human parasites, and you are going to be stripped and sent down the river as fast as these flatboats will carry you.
As I was sitting by my stateroom window, sometimes reading and sometimes looking out upon the sunny river, green woods, and flatboats that keep no Sabbath, a black servant entered to say that Mr. E.
The flatboats we met looked as if they were at the mercy of the floods, their long oars bending like straws in the current.
The rafts, the coal-barges, the humble skiffs, and flatboats were all tied up for the night.
These flatboatswere floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, where the cargoes were sold.
All this freight, worth thousands of dollars, belongs to other people, and I suppose half of it isn't even insured because the rates on flatboats are so high.
Flatboats, just like this one, carried most of the produce to New Orleans; but as flatboats couldn't come back up the river, there were a good many keelboats that brought freight and passengers up as well as down stream.
They drove the keelboats out of business, but the flatboats continued because of their cheapness till after the Civil War, when the great towboats came into use.
These, with their acres of barges, could carry freight even cheaper thanflatboats could.
All this was necessary in making sharp turns in the channel to keep off bars; but as the flatboats usually went down the river only at high stages of water, the chief use of the oars was to make landings.
Montcalm advances on the lake with the flatboats and canoes, and the rafts with the heavy artillery.
Portaging two hundred and fifty flatboats with as many birch canoes up the river, the French invade the mountain wilderness of Lake George.
They were fifty in number, besides two flatboats to be used as a ferry to cross the artillery.
The enemy has destroyed all flatboatswithin reach, but I may hunt some up.
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