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Shoshone (Snake River sternwheeler)
The ''Shoshone'' was the first steamboat built on the Snake River, Idaho, above Hells Canyon and the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon to the lower Snake River. This was considered one of the most astounding feats of steamboat navigation ever accomplished.〔
==Design and construction==
In the mid-1860s there was a mining boom in the area of Boise, Idaho. The Oregon Steam Navigation Company had tried to run a steamboat, the ''Colonel Wright'', up the Snake River through Hells Canyon, but this proved impossible. As an alternative, O.S.N. decided to build a steamboat on the upper Snake River; this vessel, the ''Shoshone'', was launched in 1866 at Old Fort Boise, Idaho.〔name = Mills〕〔() Buckendorf, Bauer, and Jacox, "Non-Native Exploration, Settlement, and Land Use of the Greater Hells Canyon Area, 1800s to 1950s"(p23), Technical Report Appendix E.4.11, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Re-licensing application, Idaho Power Company, 2003〕
All the iron and machinery had to be packed in by mule overland, and a forge was set up to hammer the iron into fittings. The timber for her hull and cabins was cut in the mountains and hauled or floated to the construction site, where it was sawn into planks and other components for the vessel. It cost the company as much to build ''Shoshone'' as it took to build three boats elsewhere. Although she was a large boat and expensive, ''Shoshone'' drew less than two feet of water and had no difficulty navigating the river to Old's Ferry, Idaho.〔〔Timmen, Fritz, ''Blow for the Landing -- A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West'', at 143-44, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID 1973 ISBN 0-87004-221-1〕〔Marshall, Don, ''Oregon Shipwrecks'', at 198-201, Binford & Mort Publishing, Portland, OR 1984 ISBN 0-8323-0430-1〕〔(Olds Ferry )〕
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