[U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme^, trireme; stern-wheeler

And of what value was hereditary prestige, when he who now chopped the most wood, or best conned a stern-wheeler through the island mazes, attained the chiefest consideration of his fellows?

Then there are two night passenger boats from Portland down, the "R.R. Thompson" and the "S.G. Reed," both stern-wheelers of large size, spacious, roomy boats, well appointed in every particular.

Early in December Benton sent out a big boom of logs with a hired stern-wheeler that was no more than out of Roaring Lake before the snow came.

A chunky stern-wheeler, with blow-off valve hissing, stood by a boom of logs in the bay, and men were moving back and forth across the swifters, making all ready for a tow.

Crump, the engineer, shot a sullen look at the master ere he turned back to the crude oil motor whose mad pounding rattled the old bayou stern-wheeler from keel to hogchains.

The H. W. Wilson Company (PWH); 21Nov74; R591296. R591297. Stern-wheelers up Columbia: a century of steamboating in the Oregon country.

The H. W. Wilson Company (PWH); 21Nov74; R591296. R591297. Stern-wheelers up Columbia: a century of steamboating in the Oregon country.