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...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 up the Red River to civilization...
...Monopoly. The steamboat company of Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston (brother of Louisiana's Governor Edward Livingston) had an 18-year monopoly over the rivers in Louisiana, "enough to bottle up the Valley." Shreve determined to break...
When the President reached New Or leans, Edward Livingston hurried down to look it over. "It was an odd vessel, he realized, only because no one had ever built a steamboat for the Mississippi. He could foresee that it would be the Valley steamboat of the future." "You deserve well of your country, young man," he told Shreve, "but we shall be compelled to beat...
First step in the beating was to seize the President, hold it in $10,000 bail. Shreve countered by demanding a $10,000 bond for any damages to his ship while Livingston held it. Frightened for the first time, Livingston released the boat. Triumphantly Shreve steamed back to Louisville...
...LIVINGSTON BUNZL...