sternwheeler

With our stern-wheeler we never felt that there was any danger, but our progress was exceedingly slow.

And if the outfit was gotten out of a wrecked Mississippi stern-wheeler, what boots it!

The engine-room crew of a Mississippi steamer varies as the boat is a side-wheeler or a stern-wheeler.

The bluff bows of the stern-wheeler had squelched into the soft brown mud, and the current had swept the boat alongside the bank.