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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 /
Print source: Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo / by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900, c1897.
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
2007-12-04
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Subject terms:
Ohio River--Description and travel.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054853308;view=toc;c=darltext

Contents
[Front Cover]
[Title Pages]
[Dedication]
Contents
Preface
Chapter I. On the Monongahela -- The over-mountain path -- Redstone [...]
Chapter II. First day on the Ohio -- At Logstown [...]
Chapter III. Shingis Old Town -- The dynamiter -- Yellow Creek [...]
Chapter IV. An industrial region -- Steubenville -- Mingo Bottom -- In a [...]
Chapter V. House-boat life -- Decadence of steamboat traffic -- Wheeling, [...]
Chapter VI. The Big Grave -- Washington and Round Bottom -- A [...]
Chapter VII. In Dixie -- Oil and natural gas, at Witten's Bottom -- The [...]
Chapter VIII. Life ashore and afloat -- Marietta "the Plymouth Rock [...]
Chapter IX. Poor Whites -- First library in the West -- An [...]
Chapter X. Cliff-dwellers, on Long Bottom -- Pomeroy Bend -- Letart's [...]
Chapter XI. Battle of Point Pleasant -- The story of Gallipolis [...]
Chapter XII. In a fog -- The Big Sandy -- Rainy weather -- [...]
Chapter XIII. The Scioto, and the Shawanese -- A Night at [...]
Chapter XIV. Produce-boats -- A dead town -- On the Great [...]
Chapter XV. The story of North Bend -- The "shakes" -- Driftwood -- [...]
Chapter XVI. New Switzerland -- An old-time river pilot -- House-boat [...]
Chapter XVII. Storied Louisville -- Red Indians and white -- A night [...]
Chapter XVIII. Village life -- A traveling photographer -- On a country [...]
Chapter XIX. Fisherman's tales -- Skiff nomenclature -- Green River -- Evansville -- Henderson -- [...]
Chapter XX. Shawneetown -- Farm-houses on stilts -- Cave-in-Rock -- [...]
Chapter XXI. The Cumberland and the Tennessee -- Stately solitudes -- Old [...]
Appendix A. Historical outline of Ohio Valley settlement.
Appendix B. Selected list of Journals of previous travelers down [...]
Index
[Back Cover]