On the storied Ohio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rivers--Ohio.

Rivers.

Ohio River.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On the Storied Ohio tells the story of the six-week, 1100-mile journey down the Ohio River made by the longtime Secretary and Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and Managing Editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, Rueben Gold Thwaites, his family and a Doctor. This new and revised edition of Afloat on the Ohio recounts the 1894 adventure from Redstone, PA to Cairo, IL when Thwaits chose to make the pilgrimage by skiff rather than onboard the faster steamers. It is a logbook of their travels and the curious people they met. Yet it is also a rich retelling of river legend, looking into the past to understand the great waterway while imagining the experiences of the early explorers, pioneers, and settlers who opened up the West through river travel from the East. Book jacket.

Contents:

Intro

PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

On the Monongahela

The over-mountain path

Redstone Old Fort

The Youghiogheny

Braddock 's defeat.

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 steel mill

Indian character.

CHAPTER V.

House-boat life

Decadence of steamboat traffic

Wheeling,and Wheeling Creek.

CHAPTER VI.

The Big Grave

Washington and Round Bottom

A lazy man 's paradise

Captina Creek

George Rogers Clark at Fish Creek

Southern types.

CHAPTER VII.

In Dixie

Oil and natural gas, at Witten 's Bottom

The Long Reach

Photographing crackers

Visitors in camp.

CHAPTER VIII.

Life ashore and afloat

Marietta,"the Plymouth Rock of the West "

The Little Kanawha

The story of Blennerhassett 's Island.

CHAPTER IX.

Poor whites

First library in the West

An hour at Hockingport

A hermit fisher.

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.

CHAPTER XI.

Battle of Point Pleasant

The story of Gallipolis

Rosebud

Huntington

The genesis of a houseboater.

CHAPTER XII.

In a fog

The Big Sandy

Operatic gypsies

An ancient tavern.

CHAPTER XIII.

The Scioto, and the Shawanese

A night at Rome

Limestone

Keels, flats, and boatmen of the olden time.

CHAPTER XIV.

Produce-boats

A dead town

On the Great Bend

Grant 's birthplace

The Little Miami

The genesis of Cincinnati.

CHAPTER XV.

The story of North Bend

The "shakes "

Driftwood

Rabbit hash

A side-trip to Big Bone Lick.

CHAPTER XVI.

New Switzerland.

An old-time river pilot

Houseboat life on the lower reaches

A philosopher in rags

Wooded solitudes

Arrival at Louisville.

CHAPTER XVII.

Storied Louisville

Red Indians and white

A night on Sand Island

New Albany

Riverside hermits

The river falling

A deserted village

An ideal camp.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Village life

A traveling photographer

On a country road

Studies in color

Again among colliers

In sweet content

A ferry romance.

CHAPTER XIX.

Fishermen 's tales

Skiff nomenclature

Green River

Evansville

Henderson

Audubon and Rafinesque

Floating shops

The Wabash.

CHAPTER XX.

Shawneetown

Farm-houses on stilts

Cave-in-Rock

Island nights.

CHAPTER XXI.

The Cumberland and the Tennessee

Stately solitudes

Old Fort Massac

Dead towns in Egypt

The last camp

Cairo.

Appendix A.

Historical outline of Ohio Valley settlement.

Appendix B.

Selected list of Journals of previous trav- elers down the Ohio.

INDEX.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Forks of the Ohio

The Monongahela at Braddock

"The Contour of the Rugged Hills "

A Floating Sawmill

The River Trough

Marketing Railway Ties

Stately Solitudes.

Notes:

Plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

Includes index.

Originally published: On the storied Ohio, an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903.

"Selected list of journals of previous travelers down the Ohio": p.320-328.

ISBN:

1-58218-290-6

OCLC:

648371691