The Ohio River
A COURSE OF EMPIRE
By Archer B. Hulbert
Associate professor of American History, Marietta College,
Author of “Historic Highways of America,” etc.
390 pages, with 100 Illustrations and a Map. $3.50 net
An interesting description from a fresh point of view of the international struggle which ended with the English conquest of the Ohio Basin, and includes many interesting details of the pioneer movement on the Ohio. The most widely read students of the Ohio Valley will find a unique and unexpected interest in Mr. Hulbert’s chapters dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time methods of navigation, etc.
“A wonderfully comprehensive and entirely fascinating book.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Narragansett Bay
Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting
By Edgar Mayhew Bacon
Author of “The Hudson River,” “Chronicles of Tarrytown,” etc.