"Two centuries ago, Capt. Nicholas Roosevelt set out to do something that no one had done before: Travel from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in the first steamboat to cross the country's inland waterways. With his wife, Lydia, a daughter, Rosetta, and a large Newfoundland dog named Tiger in tow, Roosevelt's journey started in October 1811. Three months later, the steamship New Orleans arrived in the Crescent City, as crowds gathered on the levee and watched the boat steam by."