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...individual Americans have so directly or so powerfully influenced the history and development of so vast a region-and few have been so completely forgotten-as Henry Shreve, Mississippi keelboatman, who, by the time he was 35: 1) broke Pittsburgh's monopoly of the fur trade; 2) broke Canada's monopoly of the Western lead trade; 3) broke the Livingston-Fulton monopoly of steamboating on the Mississippi with his shallow-draught, double-deck river steamboat; 4) made navigation safe by inventing a snag-pulling boat with which he cleared some 1,500 miles of river; 5) opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Shreve & the River | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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