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Passage in those days meant boarding a steam-powered side-wheeler.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2021

In 1904, he purchased a side-wheeler, the Jane Moseley, and increased his stake in an amusement park in Prince George’s County called Notley Hall.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2015

The jet liner and the telex cable have replaced the side-wheeler and the raft.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Mississippi River in St. Louis, a McDonald's is housed in a floating reproduction of an 1880s side-wheeler, complete with brass-trimmed chandeliers.

From Time Magazine Archive

For five days we lay anchored outside, while stevedores loaded supplies from the "Bertha" on barges towed ashore by the side-wheeler "Sadie."

From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg