Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo /
Основен автор: | Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1999.
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Серия: |
Shawnee classics.
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Afloat on the Ohio. |
Съдържание:
- 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.