Talk:Steamboats of the Mississippi

List of vessels

 * Belle of Cincinnati: Built 1988, authentic paddlewheeler; home port Cincinnati; 225 feet long, 1,000 passenger capacity, four decks; new to Tall Stacks.
 * Belle of Louisville: Built 1914, authentic steam-powered sternwheeler; home port Louisville, Ky.; 200 feet long, 650 passenger capacity, three decks; has participated in every Tall Stacks event.
 * Celebration Belle: Built 1986, ornamental sternwheeler; home port Moline, Ill.; 196 feet long, 800 passenger capacity, four decks; participated in Tall Stacks 1999, 2003.
 * Colonel: Built 1985; authentic sternwheeler; home port Galveston, Texas; 152 feet long, 700 passenger capacity, three decks; participated in 1999, 2003.
 * Delta Queen: Built 1926; authentic steam-powered sternwheeler; home port Cincinnati; 285 feet long, 180 (overnight) passenger capacity, four decks; participated in every Tall Stacks event.
 * General Jackson: Built 1985; authentic sternwheeler; home port Nashville, Tenn.; 300 feet long, 1,000 passenger capacity, four decks; participated in 2003.
 * Harriet Bishop: Built 1987; sternwheeler; home port Saint Paul, Minn.; 98 feet long, capacity 350, three decks; participated in 1995, 1999, 2003.
 * Magnolia Belle: Built 1969; authentic sternwheeler; home port New Orleans, La.; 105 feet long, 150 passenger capacity, two decks; new to Tall Stacks.
 * Majestic: Built 1987; ornamental side-wheeler; home port Pittsburgh, Pa.; 277 feet long, 900 passenger capacity, three decks; participated in 1992, 1995, 1999, 2003.
 * Mississippi Queen: Built 1976; authentic steam-powered sternwheeler; home port New Orleans, La.; 382 feet long, 436 (overnight) passenger capacity, seven decks; participated in 1992, 1995, 1999, 2003.
 * Music City Queen: Built 1984; ornamental sternwheeler; home port Nashville, Tenn.; 125 feet long, 200 passenger capacity, three decks; participated in 2003.
 * ''Natchez: Built 1975; authentic steamboat; home port New Orleans, La.; 265 feet long, 1,000 passenger capacity, three decks; new to Tall Stacks.
 * P.A. Denny: Built 1930; authentic sternwheeler; home port Newport, Ky.; 109 feet long, 150 passenger capacity, three decks; participated in 1088, 1993, 1995, 2003.
 * Spirit of Cincinnati: Built 1964; authentic sternwheeler; home port Cincinnati; 77 feet long, 120 passenger capacity, two decks; participated in every Tall Stacks event.
 * Spirit of Jefferson: Built 1963; ornamental sternwheeler; home port Louisville, Ky.; 118 feet long, 250 passenger capacity, three decks; participated in 1995, 1999, 2003.
 * Spirit of Peoria: Built 1988; authentic paddlewheeler; home port Peoria, Ill.; 160 feet long, 375 passenger capacity, three decks; new to Tall Stacks.
 * Julia Belle Swain —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 05:28, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

NEED A FLIPPIN' ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TO SEE THE PHOTOS....YEEESH. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 20:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Everyone else, please meet sfs, one of our newest and most eager (if spicy) Wikipedians.....full-size images are always available by clicking on the thumbnail; "Wikipedia is not an image gallery" is how I think someone else put it.....Skookum1 (talk) 21:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Needs Editing
This article needs serious editing and re-writing.

teneriff (talk) 03:22, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I just rewrote the Steamboats in Oklahoma section, which, to be kind, was confusing. It said the federal government had removed the Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek from the Oklahoma implying these were river boats. I assume what should be said was something about those Nations being forcibly removed to Oklahoma. I'm not sure about the possibility or boat traffic above Webbers Falls but I am not an Oklahoma or even steamboat specialist.

Washington, LA
As a native of Louisiana, I was at first a bit perplexed by the section on Washington, LA in an article on "Steamboats of the Mississippi," as the town of Washington is more than 30 miles from the Mississippi "as the crow flies" and even farther by steamboat. Nevertheless, since the boats did eventually end up on the Mississippi to continue their journey downriver to New Orleans, and especially considering the intensity of trade through the port of Washington during much of the 19th century, mention here is actually not entirely out of place. I've added some explanatory text to introduce this section. Piperh (talk) 18:56, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Article issues
I'm trying my best to do some copyediting, but this article could use some TLC. The main issues that I notice are the lack of inline citations, completely unsourced facts, and the flow of ideas. In quite a few sections, it doesn't become apparent why a particular section exists until the last few lines, when it brings it back to the topic of Mississippi steamboats. Each section should, ideally, immediately make the connection to the steamboats in an explicit topic sentence or two, then go on to the rest of the details. In addition, I think the sections could be organized a bit better, both in terms of order and the topics they cover. Perhaps some could even be combined.- Pax  Verbum  20:25, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

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