2.A case might be made for the blackface minstrel show, vaudeville, or for the entertainments of some medicine shows, camivals, and riverboats as American folk drama.
9.They went on board a riverboat, the wooden wheel of which had a soundof conflagration, and whose rusted metal plates reverberated like the mouth of an oven.
10.Riverboats and barges easily transported luxury goods like cotton from southern states like Mississippi and industrial goods from northern factories up in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.