CONTENTS.
Preface. [xi]
Chapter I.
On the Monongahela—The over-mountain path—Redstone Old Fort—The Youghiogheny—Braddock's defeat. [1]
Chapter II.
First day on the Ohio—At Logstown. [22]
Chapter III.
Shingis Old Town—The dynamiter—Yellow Creek. [29]
Chapter IV.
An industrial region—Steubenville—Mingo Bottom—In a steel mill—Indian character. [39]
Chapter V.
House-boat life—Decadence of steamboat traffic—Wheeling, and Wheeling Creek. [50]
Chapter VI.
The Big Grave—Washington and Round Bottom—A lazy man's paradise—Captina Creek—George Rogers Clark at Fish Creek—Southern types. [64]
Chapter VII.
In Dixie—Oil and natural gas, at Witten's Bottom—The Long Reach—Photographing crackers—Visitors in camp. [77]
Chapter VIII.
Life ashore and afloat—Marietta, "the Plymouth Rock of the West"—The Little Kanawha—The story of Blennerhassett's Island. [87]
Chapter IX.
Poor whites—First library in the West—An hour at Hockingport—A hermit fisher. [99]
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. [109]
Chapter XI.
Battle of Point Pleasant—The story of Gallipolis—Rosebud—Huntington—The genesis of a houseboater. [125]
Chapter XII.
In a fog—The Big Sandy—Rainy weather—Operatic gypsies—An ancient tavern. [139]
Chapter XIII.
The Scioto, and the Shawanese—A night at Rome—Limestone—Keels, flats, and boatmen of the olden time. [150]
Chapter XIV.
Produce-boats—A dead town—On the Great Bend—Grant's birthplace—The Little Miami—The genesis of Cincinnati. [168]
Chapter XV.
The story of North Bend—The "shakes"—Driftwood—Rabbit hash—A side-trip to Big Bone Lick. [182]
Chapter XVI.
New Switzerland—An old-time river pilot—Houseboat life on the lower reaches—A philosopher in rags—Wooded solitudes—Arrival at Louisville. [202]
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. [218]
Chapter XVIII.
Village life—A traveling photographer—On a country road—Studies in color—Again among colliers—In sweet content—A ferry romance. [233]
Chapter XIX.
Fishermen's tales—Skiff nomenclature—Green River—Evansville—Henderson—Audubon and Rafinesque—Floating shops—The Wabash. [251]
Chapter XX.
Shawneetown—Farm-houses on stilts—Cave-in-Rock—Island nights. [267]
Chapter XXI.
The Cumberland and the Tennessee—Stately solitudes—Old Fort Massac—Dead towns in Egypt—The last camp—Cairo. [280]
Appendix A.—Historical outline of Ohio Valley settlement. [296]
Appendix B.—Selected list of Journals of previous travelers down the Ohio. [320]
Index. [329]