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Steamboats mainly traveled the Mississippi, Alabama, Apalachicola, Flint and, Chattahoochee. They carried passengers, cotton bales, cows, pigs, horses plows, seeds. In the 1830's they navigated the Missouri River to the mouth of the Yellowstone to early mining towns. Steamboats on the Mississippi carried lead from lead mines. Lead was very important export and between 1823-1848 365 boats made 7645 trips moving 5 million tons of lead. On November 19, 1840 newspapers reported 100 flatboats passed going downstream loaded with produce. During the civil war they carried Iowa soldiers, weapons, and food supplies to army posts.

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