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Afloat on the Ohio

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4Chapter I — On the Monongahela — The Over-Mountain Path — Redstone…
  5. 5Chapter II — First Day on the Ohio — At Logstown
  6. 6Chapter III — Shingis Old Town — The Dynamiter — Yellow Creek
  7. 7Chapter IV — An Industrial Region — Steubenville — Mingo Bottom — I…
  8. 8Chapter V — Houseboat Life — Decadence of Steamboat Traffic — Wheel…
  9. 9Chapter VI — The Big Grave — Washington, and Round Bottom — A Lazy…
  10. 10Chapter VII — In Dixie — Oil and Natural Gas, at Witten’s Bottom —…
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Life Ashore and Afloat — Marietta, “The Plymouth Roc…
  12. 12Chapter IX — Poor Whites — First Library in the West — An Hour at H…
  13. 13Chapter X — Cliff-dwellers on Long Bottom — Pomeroy Bend — Letart’s…
  14. 14Chapter XI — Battle of Point Pleasant — The Story of Gallipolis — R…
  15. 15Chapter XII — In a Fog — The Big Sandy — Rainy Weather — Operatic G…
  16. 16Chapter XIII — The Scioto, and the Shawanese — A Night at Rome — Li…
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Produce Boats — A Dead Town — On the Great Bend — Gra…
  18. 18Chapter XV — The Story of North Bend — The “Shakes” — Driftwood — R…
  19. 19Chapter XVI — New Switzerland…
  20. 20Chapter XVII — Storied Louisville…
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Village Life — A Traveling Photographer — On a Coun…
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Fishermen’s Tales — Skiff Nomenclature — Green River…
  23. 23Chapter XX — Shawneetown — Farm-houses on Stilts — Cave-in-Rock — A…
  24. 24Chapter XXI — The Cumberland and the Tennessee — Stately Solitudes…
  25. 25Appendix A
  26. 26Appendix B

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