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Rivers: living, moving roads. At first people traveled in
canoes; light and fast, but they couldn’t carry much cargo. To
move goods downstream and bring goods upstream required the use
of flat boats, or keelboats. First when the Mississippi Valley
and lead ore from Dubuque moved downstream to St. Louis or New
Orleans it must had been almost relaxing to float down river
with little to do other than to keep a sharp eye out for snags.
Moving supplies back