Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) |
Series |
Shawnee classics |
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Shawnee classics.
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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 -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The story of North Bend--The "shakes"--Driftwood--Rabbit hash--A side-trip to Big Bone Lick |
Notes |
Originally published: Chicago : Way & Williams, 1897 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-328) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 -- Travel -- Ohio River
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SUBJECT |
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 fast |
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Skiffs -- Ohio River -- History -- 19th century
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TRAVEL.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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TRAVEL -- General.
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Manners and customs
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Skiffs
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Travel
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SUBJECT |
Ohio River -- Description and travel
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Ohio River Valley -- Social life and customs
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Ohio River
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Ohio River Valley
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Ohio (rivier)
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Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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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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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0585316872 |
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9780585316871 |
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