On the storied 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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| Edition: | Being a new and rev. ed. of "Afloat on the Ohio," with a new preface, and full-page illustrations from photographs. |
| Imprint: | Scituate, MA : DSI Digital Reproduction, 2001. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149919 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to New Edition
- 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 travelers down the Ohio
- Index