Afloat on the Ohio: an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
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1. Verfasser: Thwaites, Reuben Gold (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press 1999
Schriftenreihe:Shawnee classics
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Beschreibung:Originally published: Chicago : Way & Williams, 1897
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-328) and index
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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ISBN:0585316872
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