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...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...
...Shreve installed the "incredible engines" in the "unbelievable hull," and the President steamed out of Wheel ing. At Marietta, the steamboat blew up. Patiently Shreve buried the eight casualties, repaired his boiler, continued down stream...
Despite the accident, passengers crowded aboard. Shreve had brought not only practical steamboating to the Mississippi. He had brought luxury. The President was "finished with the finest woodwork and mirrors . . . meals equaled those of the best hotels and were served with much formality." In "the commodious bar," most of the conversation was about what the steamboat monopoly would do to Captain Shreve when he got to New Orleans...
...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...
...models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could see a soundless 15-minute reel of excerpts from everything from Steamboat Willie to Pinocchio...