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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...
...autumn day in 1807 Henry Shreve finished building a keelboat and, after hiring a crew of ten Frenchmen and half-breeds, shoved off into the muddy Monongahela, bound for St. Louis. He was 22, had long been fascinated by the gay river traffic. "It seems," wrote his Quaker father, "as if people are crazy to get afloat on the Ohio...
...Henry Shreve's keelboat floated past "bleak and dingy" Pittsburgh; past Charlestown with its two-story pillory and stocks ("there were not many towns that could punish two culprits at once"); past Wheeling, "a notoriously gay port"; past Marietta, where everybody asked...
...habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
...year may get an efficient, pleasant house. They will cost from $2,850 to $6,900 (with land, up to $10,000). Eight top-architectural firms designed the eight houses at nominal fees: Cameron Clark; Gardner A. Dailey; Holabird & Root; Howe & Brown; Perry, Shaw & Hepburn; Shaw, Naess & Murphy; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon; Treanor & Fatio...