Steamboat Stories by Jerry Canavit Fast Boats on the Mississippi The Fast Boats - Part 2 Racing Stories The First Steamboat Race The Great Lake Erie Steamboat Race The Great Upper-Mississippi Steamboat Race Disaster Stories Steamboat Racing and Boiler Explosions Explosion of the Steamer Mont Blanc The Sultana Disaster Incidents A Terrible Explosion in Iowa. Duck Eats Yeast, Explodes, and Puts Man's Eye Out. Boats Ben Hur: Austin Once Had The Best Dam Steamboat In Texas The Last of the Breed: A Brief History of the steamer Lone Star; the longest continually operating wooden-hull steam vessel on the Mississippi River System. The Fabulous Telephone The Stiletto and the Mary Powell Avalon Memories The Magnificent T.J. Potter The Dog & Broom People Captain Uriah Bronzer Scott Who Was Henry Miller Shreve? Hell Roarin' Jack Confessions of a Steamboat Addict Confessions Part One: The James P. Pearson Confessions Part Two: The Steamer Avalon ConfessionsPart Three: The W.J. Quinlan The Avalon, seen above, is one of the boats in Jerry's "Confessions of a Steamboat Addict." More photos from the Avalon in "Avalon Memories," above. Our steamboat raconteur, Jerry Canavit. (( Rest in peace Jerry Canavit)) Errata Recently we received a note from one of our readers regarding the band described in Steamboat Addict, Part Three. He said: "In Confessions of a Steamboat Addict, Part Three, a photo is mistakenly attributed to the Doc Wrixon band and all the members of the band are misidentified. "The band is that of Lee Johnston. From top to bottom on the staircase photo are Lee Johnston, Leo Bahr, Frank Black, Glenn Enzfelder, and Les Swanson. Attached are two other photos of the band." Steamboats.com strives to be historically correct. If you have any comments here, please send them in! * Steamboats.com Index