| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Shawnee classics
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Shawnee classics.
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| Note |
Originally published: Chicago : Way & Williams, 1897. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-328) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Story of North Bend--The "shakes"--Driftwood--Rabbit hash--A side-trip to Big Bone Lick. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 -- Travel -- Ohio River.
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913. |
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Travel. |
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Ohio River. |
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913. |
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Ohio River -- Description and travel.
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Ohio River Region. |
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Ohio River Valley -- Social life and customs.
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Ohio River Valley. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Skiffs -- Ohio River -- History -- 19th century.
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Skiffs. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913. Afloat on the Ohio. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1999 0809322684 (DLC) 98051306 (OCoLC)40359407 |
| ISBN |
0585316872 (electronic book) |
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9780585316871 (electronic book) |
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