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Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
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Title: Afloat on the Ohio
An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
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AFLOAT ON THE OHIO
Afloat on the Ohio
AN HISTORICAL PILGRIMAGE,
OF A THOUSAND MILES IN A
SKIFF, FROM REDSTONE TO
CAIRO
BY
REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
Secretary of the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Editor of "The Jesuit Relations,"
Author of "The Colonies,
1492-1750," "Historic Waterways,"
"The Story of Wisconsin,"
"Our Cycling
Tour in England,"
etc., etc.
CHICAGO
WAY & WILLIAMS
1897
COPYRIGHT
BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITES
A.D., 1897
To
FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, Ph. D.,
Professor of American History in the University of
Wisconsin, who loves his native West
and with rare insight and gift of phrase
interprets her story,
this Log of the "Pilgrim" is cordially inscribed.
CONTENTS.
Preface. xi
Chapter I.
On the Monongahela—The over-mountain path—Redstone Old Fort—The Youghiogheny—Braddock's defeat. 1
Chapter II.
First day on the Ohio—At Logstown. 22
Chapter III.
Shingis Old Town—The dynamiter—Yellow Creek. 29
Chapter IV.
An industrial region—Steubenville—Mingo Bottom—In a steel mill—Indian character. 39
Chapter V.
House-boat life—Decadence of steamboat traffic—Wheeling, and Wheeling Creek. 50
Chapter VI.
The Big Grave—Washington and Round Bottom—A lazy man's paradise—Captina Creek—George Rogers Clark at Fish Creek—Southern types. 64
Chapter VII.
In Dixie—Oil and natural gas, at Witten's Bottom—The Long Reach—Photographing crackers—Visitors in camp. 77
Chapter VIII.
Life ashore and afloat—Marietta, "the Plymouth Rock of the West"—The Little Kanawha—The story of Blennerhassett's Island. 87
Chapter IX.
Poor whites—First library in the West—An hour at Hockingport—A hermit fisher. 99
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. 109
Chapter XI.
Battle of Point Pleasant—The story of Gallipolis—Rosebud—Huntington—The genesis of a houseboater. 125
Chapter XII.
In a fog—The Big Sandy—Rainy weather—Operatic gypsies—An ancient tavern. 139