[DOC] [TLE] Steamboats of the Mississippi - Wikipedia [PAR] Steamboats played a major role in the 19th-century development of the 
Mississippi River and ... Fulton started steamboat service between Natchez and 
New Orleans. .... Rapids north of the city made St. Louis the northernmost 
navigable port for ... Twain meticulously studied 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of the 
Mississippi for two... [DOC] [TLE] A history of St. Louis - City of St. Louis [PAR] The Mississippi River and its valley were first explored by the Spaniard, ... three 
terraces to the west and extending about two miles along the riverfront. ..... In this 
year, the school which later became St. Louis University was founded. .... 
Between 1840 and 1850, St. Louis continued rapid growth, both in area and 
population. [DOC] [TLE] Steamboats facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Get information, facts, and pictures about Steamboats at Encyclopedia.com. ... a 
small landing before heading back downstream on her way to Saint Louis. ... 
channels made the Mississippi River a two-thousand-mile obstacle course, ... 
Organized races between rival steamers became the stuff of legend on the 
Mississippi,... [DOC] [TLE] STEAMBOATING - Encyclopedia Dubuque [PAR] Sep 27, 2016 ... The Missouri Fulton made her last trip from Galena to St. Louis in ... (6) By 1838, 
twenty-two steamboats were involved in the Dubuque to St. Louis trade. ... On 
August 15, 1837, a few miles below Bloomington, on the upper Mississippi river, 
.... Another race occurred between the West Newton captained by... [DOC] [TLE] Look Back 250  Steamboats make St. Louis a bustling, prosperous ... [PAR] Apr 19, 2014 ... Steamboats and freight wagons crowd the St. Louis landing in an early ... 
Steamboat race, 1870 .... Fed by the water-borne boom, city population exploded. 
... underwater  near Cahokia Bend, three miles south of the St. Louis landing. ... 
two minutes as the crippled craft drifted in the icy Mississippi River. [DOC] [TLE] Race and the Antebellum Western Steamboat Economy - UNC Press [PAR] Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World ... He marveled at the 
Mississippi's eminent basin, its fifty-four major tributaries, and its 4,000 miles of 
length ... [2] Mark Twain moved through the American West with authority and 
respect, ... River voyages forced him away from his dearly loved mother, a St. 
Louis slave. [DOC] [TLE] second place: competition between st. louis and chicago, 1764 ... [PAR] the Midwest. The competition between the two cities began during a golden age 
in river ... individual city histories written about St. Louis and Chicago. ..... 
Steamboats, however, were not integrated into the traffic of the Mississippi River 
.... $150 wagon from Missouri for $700 in Mexico in 1822.25 The potential for 
enormous. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "A traffic history of the Mississippi River system" [PAR] The annual reports of only one river city  Cincinnati  have been available ... 2
). All of these publications have been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this 
study. ... During the Kevolution a (considerable trade sprang u]) between the 
Ohio ...... Arrivals of steamboats at St. Louis from upper Mississippi ports, 1841-
1852. [DOC] [TLE] Life on the Mississippi, Now | NRDC [PAR] Jan 5, 2016 ... Six of ustwo real estate agents, a furniture maker, two folk artists, and ... the 
river passed just 700 feet away, across Main Street and beyond a ... a cheap, 
gaudy packet arrived from Keokuk, Iowa, or St. Louis. ... I was driving along a 
300-mile stretch of the Mississippi between Hannibal and Cairo, two... [DOC] [TLE] Born And Raised In The South...,: August 2011 [PAR] Aug 22, 2011 ... The hull, first two decks and steam engines were ordered in 1924 ... The Queen 
recreated historic steamboat races each year during the .... It originally ran 
between New Orleans and Natchez, Mississippi, and ... Rapids north of the city 
made St. Louis the northernmost navigable port for many large boats. [DOC] [TLE] Publication 100 -

Question: 2 steamboats race annually on the Mississippi between St. Louis & this city about 700 miles away
Answer: New Orleans