On the storied Ohio

• Autore: Thwaites Reuben Gold <1853-1913.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Rivers - Ohio
• Soggetto geografico: Ohio River
• Note generali: 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.
• Nota di bibliografia: "Selected list of journals of previous travelers down the Ohio": p.320-328.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Rainy weather -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: On the storied Ohio
• ISBN: 1-58218-290-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815856803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II