On the storied Ohio.

On the Storied Ohio tells the story of the six-week, 1100-mile journey down the Ohio River made by the longtime Secretary and Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and Managing Editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, Rueben Gold Thwaites, his family and a Doctor. This new and revised...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.
Temas:
Rivers > Ohio.
Cours d'eau > Ohio.
Rivers
Ohio River.
Ohio (Rivière)
Ohio
Ohio River
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER I.
  • On the Monongahela
  • The over-mountain path
  • Redstone Old Fort
  • The Youghiogheny
  • Braddock 's defeat.
  • CHAPTER II.
  • First day on the Ohio
  • At Logstown.
  • CHAPTER III.
  • Shingis Old Town
  • The dynamiter
  • Yellow Creek.
  • CHAPTER IV.
  • An industrial region
  • Steubenville
  • Mingo Bottom
  • In a steel mill
  • Indian character.
  • CHAPTER V.
  • House-boat life
  • Decadence of steamboat traffic
  • Wheeling, and Wheeling Creek.
  • CHAPTER VI.
  • The Big Grave
  • Washington and Round Bottom
  • A lazy man 's paradise
  • Captina Creek.
  • George Rogers Clark at Fish Creek
  • Southern types.
  • CHAPTER VII.
  • In Dixie
  • Oil and natural gas, at Witten 's Bottom
  • The Long Reach
  • Photographing crackers
  • Visitors in camp.
  • CHAPTER VIII.
  • Life ashore and afloat
  • Marietta, "the Plymouth Rock of the West "
  • The Little Kanawha
  • The story of Blennerhassett 's Island.
  • CHAPTER IX.
  • Poor whites
  • First library in the West
  • An hour at Hockingport
  • A hermit fisher.
  • CHAPTER X.
  • Cliff-dwellers, on Long Bottom
  • Pomeroy Bend
  • Letart 's Island, and Rapids
  • Game, in the early day
  • Rainy weather.
  • In a "cracker "home.
  • CHAPTER XI.
  • Battle of Point Pleasant
  • The story of Gallipolis
  • Rosebud
  • Huntington
  • The genesis of a houseboater.
  • CHAPTER XII.
  • In a fog
  • The Big Sandy
  • Rainy weather
  • Operatic gypsies
  • An ancient tavern.
  • CHAPTER XIII.
  • The Scioto, and the Shawanese
  • A night at Rome
  • Limestone
  • Keels, flats, and boatmen of the olden time.
  • CHAPTER XIV.
  • Produce-boats
  • A dead town
  • On the Great Bend
  • Grant 's birthplace
  • The Little Miami
  • The genesis of Cincinnati.
  • CHAPTER XV.
  • The story of North Bend
  • The "shakes "
  • Driftwood.
  • Rabbit hash
  • A side-trip to Big Bone Lick.
  • CHAPTER XVI.
  • New Switzerland
  • An old-time river pilot
  • Houseboat life on the lower reaches
  • A philosopher in rags
  • Wooded solitudes
  • Arrival at Louisville.
  • CHAPTER XVII.
  • Storied Louisville
  • Red Indians and white
  • A night on Sand Island
  • New Albany
  • Riverside hermits
  • The river falling
  • A deserted village
  • An ideal camp.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.
  • Village life
  • A traveling photographer
  • On a country road
  • Studies in color
  • Again among colliers
  • In sweet content
  • A ferry romance.
  • CHAPTER XIX.
  • Fishermen 's tales
  • Skiff nomenclature
  • Green River
  • Evansville
  • Henderson
  • Audubon and Rafinesque
  • Floating shops
  • The Wabash.
  • CHAPTER XX.
  • Shawneetown
  • Farm-houses on stilts
  • Cave-in-Rock
  • Island nights.
  • CHAPTER XXI.
  • The Cumberland and the Tennessee
  • Stately solitudes
  • Old Fort Massac
  • Dead towns in Egypt
  • The last camp
  • Cairo.
  • Appendix A.
  • Historical outline of Ohio Valley settlement.
  • Appendix B.
  • Selected list of Journals of previous trav- elers down the Ohio.
  • INDEX.
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • The Forks of the Ohio
  • The Monongahela at Braddock.

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