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CAPT. WILLIAM T. BOARDMAN owned the riverboat "DACOTAH" , which was used in the New Orleans?Red River trade. He was assisted by his brother JOHN A. BOARDMAN. She was a large river boat (252' x 48 x 5-5) and arrived in New Orleans on December 3? 1889 with a record load of 1138 bales of cotton and 12,265 sacks of cotton seed. The DACOTAH made seven trips up the Missouri River in 1879 to Fort Benton, Montana.
The DACOTAH was dismantled in 1893 and parts of her cabin went into the sternwheeler Imperial.
(See the DIXIE section of The Times-Picayune, dated Oct. 9i 19&0 under Pictures Out of our Past. The four vessels are moored at the head of Canal Streetand the DACOTAH is the second vessel from the left).