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Author: Wiley, Richard Taylor, 1856-
Title: Monongahela, the river and its region
Print source: Monongahela, the river and its region
Wiley, Richard Taylor, 1856-
Butler, Pa: The Ziegler company, c1937]
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
1999
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This work is believed to be in the public domain with no known restrictions on access and use.
Subject terms:
Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)--History.
Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)--History.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00aee8766m;view=toc;c=pitttext

Contents
Monongahela, the river and its region
[Titlepage]
Table of Contents
Random Notes and Anecdotes
Chapter I. Characteristics and Distinctive Features -- Branches and Affluents -- Historic Setting
Chapter II. "The Monongahela Country" and Some of Its Early Visitors
Chapter III. The Beginning of a Great City
Chapter IV. Earliest Inhabitants -- Prehistoric Races and Remains -- Indians
Chapter V. Early Moves in Settlement by White People
Chapter VI. Roads, Ferries, and Bridges
Chapter VII. Conflicting Claims for Possession
Chapater VIII. Indian Wars and the Revolution
Chapter IX. The Young Nation's First Rebellion
Chapter X. Early Boat Building -- Types of Craft and Their Evolution
Chapter XI. The Flatboat, Emblem of a Mighty Movement in Expansion
Chapter XII. The Keelboat, Packet of Pioneer Days
Chapter XIII. When Ocean-Going Ships Sailed from the Monongahela
Chapter XIV. The Coming of the Steamboat -- Some Early Built Ones
Chapter XV. The Steamboat Building Era
Chapter XVI. The Days of the Old Steam Packets
Chapter XVII. Slackwater Improvement: Earliest Dams and Efforts for Better Ones
Chapter XVIII. Slackwater Improvement: Building of Dams and Locks and Their Use through the Years
Chapter XIX. Coal: Early Movements and Mining Methods -- Old Coalboating Days
Chapter XX. Coal: The Towboat Era of Vast Expansion in Production and Shipping -- Coke -- Other Mineral Products
Chapter XXI. Manufacturing in Early and Later Times
Chapter XXII. Railroads of the Valley
Chapter XXIII. The River's Main Tributaries
Chapter XXIV. The Human Product: Noted Offspring of the Monongahela Valley
Chapter XXV. River and Region in Later Days
Chapter XXVI. The River in Story and Song
Index