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songs of the day was ‘The Hunters of Kentucky
In the early twenties of the last century one of the popular
songs of the day was ‘The Hunters of Kentucky.’ Written by Samuel
Woodworth, the author of ‘The Old Oaken Bucket,’ it had
originally been printed in the New York Mirror but had come into
the hands of an actor named Ludlow, who was playing in the old
French theater in New Orleans. The poem chants the praises of the
Kentucky riflemen who fought with Jackson at New Orleans and
indubitably proved

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desired merely to obtain official encouragement and intended to
allow his invention to be used by all comers
Fitch, on the other hand, when he applied to Congress in 1785,
desired merely to obtain official encouragement and intended to
allow his invention to be used by all comers. Meeting only with
rebuff, he realized that his only hope of organizing a company
that could provide working capital lay in securing monopolistic
privileges. In 1786 he accordingly applied to the individual
States and secured the sole right to operate steamboats on the
waterways of New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia. How different would have been the story of the
steamboat if Congress had accepted Fitch at his word and created
a precedent against monopolistic rights on American rivers!

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Latka transforms himself into the slick talking pop culture amalgamation of Vic Ferrari.

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