Winnebago

Hartford, John

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Winnebago (Steamboat)
Excursion boats
River steamers
Steamboats

Wisconsin River (Wis.)
Wisconsin

The Winnebago is a passenger steamboat of the typical packet boat style which now plies the Upper Mississippi River system. She was built by the Dubuque Boat and Boiler Works at Dubuque, Iowa, and assembled at the Dells, Wisconsin, after shipment by train. She has a horizontal, oil burning boiler forward and abaft of the bow underneath a gang way leading to the second or boiler deck. The sternwheel is of the bucket type, wooden construction. Every evening during July and August the Winnebago carries up to 400 passengers through the Dells , Wisconsin to the Indian Ceremonial at Stand Rock on the Wisconisn River... During the season of 1941 some 156,000 persons were carried through the Dells landing in the various canyons for short hikes that are cool and picturesque. In the city of Wisconsin Dells, where all boats start, accomodations are available for tourists. Exclusive elevator service to and from the boats is available as the city is 70 feet above the rock cliff to eliminate climbing. The boats have sound systems for the guides to call the rock formations and conduct the tours. After 8:00 A.M. a boat can be boarded every 30 minutes for these trips. Thirty five 60 passenger motor boats and the Winnebago make these trips. The boat capacity is 200,000 passengers per year on a three hour trip. The boats are very modern having bus seating capacity with the engines in a compartment separate from the passenger's compartment. In the evening the American Legion puts on an Indian ceremonial at the Ampitheatre along the south bank whic seats 2,000 persons and there are 100 Indians in the play. Some of the leading characters are Chief Silvertongue, famous Indian tenor; Evergreen Tree, impersonator, and many others famous throughout Florida and Wisconsin resorts.

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