In 1868 Joseph Leonard advertised in newspapers across south Louisiana that he’d bought a steamboat “for the express purpose of freighting cattle from Butte la Rose in the Attakapas to the Park on Bayou Plaquemine.”
The boat was called “Alone,” which anyone who has spent time with a herd of cattle enclosed in a small space probably thinks is entirely appropriate.
People without a herd to move left it alone…