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 | |
New Switzerland -- An old-time river pilot -- Houseboat life on the lower reaches--A philosopher in rags--Wooded solitudes--Arrival at Louisville | |
Storied Louisville--Red Indians and white--A night on Sand Island--New Albany--Riverside hermits--The river falling--A deserted village--An ideal camp | |
Village life--A traveling photographer--On a country road--Studies in color--Again among colliers--In sweet content--A ferry romance | |
Fishermen's tales--Skiff nomenclature--Green River--Evansville--Henderson--Audubon and Rafinesque--Floating shops--The Wabash | |
Shawneetown--Farm-houses on stilts--Cave-in-Rock--Island nights | |
The Cumberland and the Tennessee--Stately solitudes--Old Fort Massac--Dead towns in Egypt--The last camp--Cairo | |
Historical outline of Ohio Valley settlement | |
Selected list of Journals of previous travelers down the Ohio | |
Index | |
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