The beginner's American history . eamboat. It was put on a river there; it moved, andthat was about all. 197. Robert Fulton and Mr. Livingston go to New Yorkand build a steamboat; the trip up the Hudson River.—But Robert Fulton and Mr. Livingston both believedthat a steamboat could be built that would go, and thatwould keep going. So they went to New York andbuilt one there. In the summer of 1807 a great crowd gathered to seethe boat start on her voyage up the Hudson River. Theyjoked and laughed as crowds will at anything new. Theycalled Fulton a fool and Livingston another. But when Fulton, s
The beginner's American history . eamboat. It was put on a river there; it moved, andthat was about all. 197. Robert Fulton and Mr. Livingston go to New Yorkand build a steamboat; the trip up the Hudson River.—But Robert Fulton and Mr. Livingston both believedthat a steamboat could be built that would go, and thatwould keep going. So they went to New York andbuilt one there. In the summer of 1807 a great crowd gathered to seethe boat start on her voyage up the Hudson River. Theyjoked and laughed as crowds will at anything new. Theycalled Fulton a fool and Livingston another. But when Fulton, standing on thedeck of his steamboat,waved his hand, and thewheels began to turn,and the vessel began tomove up the river, thenthe crowd became si-lent with it was Fultonsturn to laugh, and insuch a case the man wholaughs last has a right to laugh the loudest. Up the river Fulton kept going. He passed the Pali-sades 1; he passed the Highlands ^; still he kept on, and at ^ See map on page See map on page Fultons Steamer leaving New York; forAlbany. ROBERT FULTON. 155 last he reached Albany, a hundred and fifty miles aboveNew York. Nobody before had ever seen such a sight as that boatmoving up the river without the help of oars or sails; butfrom that time people saw it every day. When Fulton gotback to New York in his steamboat, everybody wanted toshake hands with him — the crowd, instead of shoutingfool, now whispered among themselves, Hes a great man— a very great man, indeed. 198. The first steamboat in the west; the Great Shake.—Four years later Fulton built a steamboat for the the autumn of 1811 it started from Pittsburgh to godown the Ohio River, and then down the Mississippi toNew Orleans. The people of the west had never seena steamboat before, and when the Indians saw the smokepuffing out, they called it the Big Fire Canoe. On the way down the river there was a terrible earth-quake. In some places it changed the course of the Ohi
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