hand-ferry

Updated: July 23, 2025

Here he had crossed a hand-ferry, climbed a noted hill, put up at its solitary mountain house being tired of walls and pavements, as he had more than once needlessly explained and at his chamber window sat looking down, until most of them had vanished, upon a cluster of soft lights on the other side of the valley, shining among the trees of the embowered town where one who now was never absent from his thoughts was at school.

George Washington Cable - John March, Southerner

After two or three days at this point, we drove up to the town of Savannah, where we laid in new supplies and passed on to the Missouri River, where we crossed by hand-ferry at Savannah Landing, now called Amazonia. Here we pressed for the first time the soil of the then unsettled plains of the great West.

Gilbert L. Cole - In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852