Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo / by Reuben Gold Thwaites.

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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