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Podcast: Offbeat Oregon History podcast
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They laughed at Captain Scott’s ugly little riverboat ... at first.
Category: Education
Duration: 00:08:45
Publish Date: 2018-07-24 09:00:00
Description: He came to the steamboat companies asking for a job, and they laughed him off. So he built his own boat on a shoestring budget — then used it to eat their lunch on the upper Willamette run. (Oregon City, Clackamas County; 1874) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/o1110d-uriah-scott-ugly-steamboat-eats-monopolys-lunch.html)
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