W. P. Snyder, Jr. at Marietta Ohio

By Mrs. Frances Mann
Published on January 1, 1970

Otterbein, Indiana 47970

The heyday of the steamboat was the twenty-year period from 1845
to the end of the Civil War. The flatboats and keel-boats had
brought a prosperous trade to towns along the western waters, and
the arrival of the steamboat brought a boom. An American in 1841
wrote, ‘Steam navigation has colonized the West.’

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