I. Introductory: The River, its place and power.
II. Where France and England met.
III. The old French war in the West.
IV. One of the vanguard of the pioneers.
V. The "Monongahela country" and its metropolis.
VI. The Ohio in the revolution.
VII. The fighting Virginians.
VIII. Fort Washington and the "Bloody way."
IX. The reign of the rowdy and outlaw.
X. From keelboat to schooner.
XI. From Pittsburg to Louisville in 1806.
XII. Blennerhassett island.
XIII. Where Yankee and Virginian met.
XIV. When the steamboat was king.
XV. The workshop of the world.