In the 1890s the historian Reuben Gold Thwaites set out by skiff from the Monongahela and rowed down the length of the Ohio. He camps on the banks, watches houseboat life and the decline of steamboat traffic, and at every bend recalls the frontier past, from Logstown and Mingo Bottom to Wheeling, the Big Grave mound and Washington’s lands.
An unhurried river journey that mixes travel and history, a pleasure for readers who love Twain’s Mississippi. Download the free EPUB.