{"id":819,"date":"2021-06-21T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steamboatnatchez.com\/news\/gilded-horns-of-steamboat-racing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T18:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:59:46","slug":"gilded-horns-of-steamboat-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steamboatnatchez.com\/news\/gilded-horns-of-steamboat-racing.html","title":{"rendered":"Gilded Horns of Steamboat Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steamboatnatchez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/008_11-150x150-2.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Imagine extreme sports athletes who have little regard for personal safety, put them in a competition like the World Series, wagered on like the Super Bowl and as elegant as Wimbledon, and you will perceive the aura of steamboat racing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Technological advances, stronger engines, and reckless crews injected a new drug into the American mindset&rdquo; speed in the mid-1800&rsquo;s.&nbsp; When transportation was no longer tied to the gait of a horse or the current of a river, the Golden Age of Steamboats was born, and racing was the ultimate ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">To command the fastest ship on the Mississippi River became the Holy Grail for hot-shot boat masters. Most important to the Captains, though, was pride &ndash; whosever was the fastest was the superstar, as big as any sports idol today.&nbsp; So, in 1852, regardless of the dangers, riverboat racing (with regulations) was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Beauty and luxury certainly counted in the competition, but speed was the ultimate achievement. To learn more read the Steamboat NATCHEZ &amp; the <em>History of Mississippi River Steamboats<\/em>, photography and text by Kerri McCaffety with Captain Clarke C. Hawley.&nbsp; (Also available for sale at SteamboatNatchez.com<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine extreme sports athletes who have little regard for personal safety, put them in a competition like the World Series, wagered on like the Super Bowl and as elegant as Wimbledon, and you will perceive the aura of steamboat racing. 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