The terrified steamboat captain refused to let them embark unless they swam out to his boat.
He worked as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River.
Many streets in Portland were named after steamboats, steamboat captains or company owners.
For the steamboat captains, that made it one of the toughest navigable rivers in British Columbia.
A steamboat captain trying to save his sidewheeler a few miles made a little improvement to the Mississippi River 156 years ago.
He was a steamboat captain until the mid-1860s, when he founded a wholesale grocery firm.
Atkinson's party suffered through a variety of problems, including an inefficient and corrupt steamboat captain.
Tom Wright became one of the most famous steamboat captains in the Pacific Northwest.
The three bluffs were named by steamboat captains, who used them as landmarks.
She was the first woman master and a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.