Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo /
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| Author / Creator: | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913. |
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| Imprint: | Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Shawnee classics Shawnee classics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11111334 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- New Switzerland -- An old-time river pilot -- Houseboat life on the lower reaches--A philosopher in rags--Wooded solitudes--Arrival at Louisville
- Storied Louisville--Red Indians and white--A night on Sand Island--New Albany--Riverside hermits--The river falling--A deserted village--An ideal camp
- Village life--A traveling photographer--On a country road--Studies in color--Again among colliers--In sweet content--A ferry romance
- Fishermen's tales--Skiff nomenclature--Green River--Evansville--Henderson--Audubon and Rafinesque--Floating shops--The Wabash
- Shawneetown--Farm-houses on stilts--Cave-in-Rock--Island nights
- 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 travelers down the Ohio
- Index