Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo / by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
1999
F519 .T54 1999 (Mapit)
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Title Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo / by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Author Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
ISBN 0809322684 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780809322688 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Language English
Description xiv, 334 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number F519 .T54 1999
Summary "Nineteenth-century American travel literature provides fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people and into the history of the nation's settlement. Reuben Gold Thwaites's Afloat on the Ohio is a fine example of the genre, rich in Ohio River personalities, legends, and history as seen through Thwaites's eyes. His six-week journey by skiff covered a thousand miles from Redstone, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi. Thwaites's voyage echoes those taken by early explorers, pioneers, and settlers who opened up the West through river travel from the East. This edition is a reprinting of the original 1897 edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Note Originally published: Chicago : Way & Williams, 1897.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-328) and index.
Series Shawnee classics.
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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.

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