They laughed at Captain Scott’s ugly little riverboat ... until he ate their lunch with it.

Published: June 30, 2020, 2 p.m.

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)