Afloat on the Ohio

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Author

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913

Title

Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

Credits

E-text prepared by David Garcia, Alison Hadwin, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net>) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library ( kdl.kyvl.org/)

Language

English

LoC Class

F516: United States local history: Ohio River and Valley.

Subject

Ohio River -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

29306

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29306

Release Date

July 4, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by David Garcia, Alison Hadwin, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net> ) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library ( http://kdl.kyvl.org/ ) — AFLOAT ON THE OHIO — Afloat on the Ohio
2. 2.CAIRO
3. 3.BY
4. 4.REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.PREFACE.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — On the Monongahela—The over-mountain path—Redstone Old Fort—The Youghiogheny—Braddock's defeat.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — First day on the Ohio—At Logstown.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — Shingis Old Town—The dynamiter—Yellow Creek.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — An industrial region—Steubenville—Mingo Bottom—In a steel mill—Indian character.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — Houseboat life—Decadence of steamboat traffic—Wheeling, and Wheeling Creek.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — The Big Grave—Washington, and Round Bottom—A lazy man's Paradise—Captina Creek—George Rogers Clark at Fish Creek—Southern types.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — In Dixie—Oil and natural gas, at Witten's Bottom—The Long Reach—Photographing crackers—Visitors in camp.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — Life ashore and afloat—Marietta, "the Plymouth Rock of the West"—The Little Kanawha—The story of Blennerhassett's Island.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — Poor whites—First library in the West—An hour at Hockingport—A hermit fisher.
16. 16.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.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — Battle of Point Pleasant—The story of Gallipolis—Rosebud—Huntington—The genesis of a house-boater.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — In a fog—The Big Sandy—Rainy weather—Operatic gypsies—An ancient tavern.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — The Scioto, and the Shawanese—A night at Rome—Limestone—Keels, flats, and boatmen of the olden time.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — Produce boats—A dead town—On the Great Bend—Grant's birthplace—The Little Miami—The genesis of Cincinnati.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — The story of North Bend—The "shakes"—Driftwood—Rabbit Hash—A side-trip To Big Bone Lick.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — New Switzerland—An old-time river pilot—Houseboat life, on the lower reaches—A philosopher in rags—Wooded solitudes—Arrival at Louisville.
23. 23.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.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — Village life—A traveling photographer—On a country road—Studies in color—Again among colliers—In sweet content—A ferry romance.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — Fishermen's tales—Skiff nomenclature—Green River—Evansville—Henderson—Audubon and Rafinesque—Floating trade—The Wabash.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — Shawneetown—Farm-houses on stilts—Cave-in-Rock—An island night.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — The Cumberland and the Tennessee—Stately Solitudes—Old Fort Massac—Dead towns in Egypt—The last camp—Cairo.
28. 28.APPENDIX A. — Historical outline of Ohio Valley settlement.
29. 29.APPENDIX B. — Selected list of Journals of previous travelers down the Ohio.
30. 30.INDEX.

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