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Reuben Gold Thwaites. Afloat on the Ohio
Afloat on the Ohio
Table of Contents
PREFACE
AFLOAT ON THE OHIO
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
Houseboat 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 house-boater
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 trade—The Wabash
CHAPTER XX
Shawneetown—Farm-houses on stilts—Cave-in-Rock—An island night
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 travelers down the Ohio
INDEX
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
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Seeking the friendly shelter of a house-boat, of which there were scores tied to the left bank, we trusted our drenched luggage to the care of its proprietor, placed Pilgrim in a snug harbor hard by, and, hurrying up a steep flight of steps leading from the levee to the terrace above, found a suburban hotel just as its office clock struck eight.
Across the Ohio, through the blinding storm, the dark outlines of Pittsburg and Allegheny City are spangled with electric lamps which throw toward us long, shimmering lances of light, in which the mighty stream, gray, mysterious, tempest-tossed, is seen to be surging onward with majestic sweep. Upon its bosom we are to be borne for a thousand miles. Our introduction has been unpropitious; it is to be hoped that on further acquaintance we may be better pleased with La Belle Rivière.
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