bcsimms04 t1_j13pegi wrote
Back in the late 1800s you could take a steamboat all the way up the Colorado River and the Gila River and the Salt River to Phoenix in Arizona
OHoSPARTACUS t1_j15gb13 wrote
The Colorado river is full of rapids and waterfalls though, how could it have ever been navigable by steam?
platitood t1_j15jn1s wrote
They put the steam on a boat.
bcsimms04 t1_j16rknb wrote
Up in Colorado it is. But in the last few hundred miles in Arizona past the grand canyon it is a normal lazy flowing river
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboats_of_the_Colorado_River?wprov=sfla1
whilst t1_j13tb7f wrote
I'd love more information on this but it's proving impossible to google. Got a link?
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