STORIES OF OHIO

By William Dean Howells

Copyright, 1897, by American Book Company.


CONTENTS


[ PREFACE. ]

[ STORIES OF OHIO ]


[ I ]THE ICE FOLK AND THE EARTH FOLK.
[ II]OHIO AS A PART OF FRANCE.
[ III]OHIO BECOMES ENGLISH.
[ IV]THE FORTY YEARS’ WAR FOR THE WEST.
[ V]THE CAPTIVITY OF JAMES SMITH
[ VI]THE CAPTIVITY OF BOONE AND KENTON.
[ VII]THE RENEGADES.
[ VIII]THE WICKEDEST DEED IN OUR HISTORY.
[ IX]THE TORTURE OF COLONEL CRAWFORD
[ X]THE ESCAPE OF KNIGHT AND SLOVER.
[ XI]THE INDIAN WARS AND ST, CLAIR’S DEFEAT.
[ XII]THE INDIAN WARS AND WAYNE’S VICTORY.
[ XIII]INDIAN FIGHTERS.
[ XIV]LATER CAPTIVITIES.
[ XV]INDIAN HEROES AND SAGES.
[ XVI]LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.
[ XVII]THE FIRST GREAT SETTLEMENTS.
[ XVIII]THE STATE OF OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812.
[ XIX]A FOOLISH MAN, A PHILOSOPHER, AND A FANATIC.
[ XX]WAYS OUT.
[ XXI]THE FIGHT WITH SLAVERY.
[ XXII]THE CIVIL WAR IN OHIO
[ XXIII ]FAMOUS OHIO SOLDIERS
[ XXIV]OHIO STATESMEN
[ XXV]OTHER NOTABLE OHIOANS
[ XVI]INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS.

ILLUSTRATIONS


[ Stone Axes ]

[ Serpent Mound ]

[ Pichawillany, Chief Town of the Miamis ]

[ Indians Carry off the Women ]

[ Indians Delivering up Captives ]

[ Indian War Parties Joining the English ]

[ Pioneers ]

[ Indian Baptism of James Smith ]

[ An Indian Prayer ]

[ Daniel Boone Shooting With the Indians ]

[ Kenton and Girty ]

[ Simon Girty ]

[ Massacre of the Christian Indians by The Whites ]

[ Execution of Crawford ]

[ Knight Escapes ]

[ The Defeat of St. Clair ]

[ The Escape of Kennan ]

[ St. Clair’s Defeat ]

[ A White Indian ]

[ Wetzel, Indian Fighter ]

[ Bearskin Cap on a Ramrod ]

[ Brickell Leaves his Indian Father ]

[ Alder Returns to his Family ]

[ Logan’s Elm ]

[ Tecumseh ]

[ Tomahawk ]

[ Ohio Cabin ]

[ Lost in the Woods ]

[ Marrieta, Ohio ]

[ Admiral Perry on Lake Erie ]

[ Aarun Burr and Blennerhassett ]

[ Johnny Appleseed ]

[ Proclaimed Himself the Lord Jesus Christ ]

[ Governor Clinton ]

[ Early Railroad ]

[ Steamboat Explosion ]

[ Indian Evacuation by River ]

[ Slavery Issue ]

[ John Brown Making Pikes for Slaves ]

[ John Morgan Invades Ohio in 1863 ]

[ Hiding With the Pigs ]

[ A Copperhead Walks With General Morgan ]

[ Rutherford Hayes ]

[ William Tecumseh Sherman ]

[ General George A. Custer ]

[ James A. Garfield ]

[ General Phillip H. Sheridan ]

[ Benjamin Harrison ]

[ Salmon P. Chase ]

[ John Sherman ]

[ William Mckinley ]

[ Thomas Corwin ]

[ Thomas A. Edison ]

[ Whitelaw Reid ]

[ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]

[ George Kennan ]