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Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Shawnee classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the Monongahela--The over-mountain path--Redstone Old Fort--The Youghiogheny--Braddock's defeat
- First day on the Ohio--At Logstown
- Shingis Old Town--The dynamiter--Yellow Creek
- An industrial region--Steubenville--Mingo Bottom--In a steel mill--Indian character
- House-boat life--Decadence of steamboat traffic--Wheeling, and Wheeling Creek
- The Big Grave--Washington and Round Bottom--A lazy man's paradise--Captina Creek--George Rogers Clark at Fish Creek--Southern types
- In Dixie--Oil and natural gas, at Witten's Bottom--The Long Reach--Photographing crackers--Visitors in camp
- Life ashore and afloat--Marietta, "the Plymouth Rock of the West"--The Little Kanawha--The story of Blennerhassett's Island
- Poor whites--First library in the West--An hour at Hockingport--A hermit fisher
- Cliff-dwellers, on Long Bottom--Pomeroy Bend--Letart's Island, and Rapids--Game, in the early day--Rainy weather--In a "cracker" home
- Battle of Point Pleasant--The story of Gallipolis--Rosebud
- Huntington
- The genesis of a houseboater
- In a fog--The Big Sandy--Rainy weather--Operatic gypsies--An ancient tavern
- The Scioto, and the Shawanese--A night at Rome--Limestone--Keels, flats, and boatmen of the olden time
- Produce-boats--A dead town--On the Great Bend--Grant's birthplace--The Little Miami--The genesis of Cincinnati
- The story of North Bend--The "shakes"--Driftwood--Rabbit hash--A side-trip to Big Bone Lick.