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Author : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Early Travel on the Ohio River written by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael C. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book History of Navigation in the Ohio River Basin written by Michael C. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell G. Ryle
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531604653
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Ohio River Images written by Russell G. Ryle and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live, work, play, and travel along the Ohio River in the early part of the twentieth century? What was the look and feel of the towns and villages that lined its banks in the days before private cars and highways? From 1900 to 1930, the Ohio River was the most economical and reliable mode of transporting goods and people from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky, and to the dozens of towns that lay between. This fascinating pictorial history gives readers a glimpse into the past of this area, and its extensive river heritage. A Sunday cruise down the Ohio River was always enjoyable, but traveling the waters was not always easy. Spring flooding reached far inland, disrupting households and businesses. Pilots' navigational skills were challenged by swiftly-moving water filled with floating debris. Ice wreaked havoc on boats and shore facilities in the winter. Low water in the summer often stopped navigation completely. But the boats were too important to let such difficulties stand in their way. They endured and served the area faithfully until hard economic times and a new reliance on trucks and automobiles ended the packet trade in the early 1930s.
Author : Leslie S. Henshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Early steamboat travel on the Ohio River written by Leslie S. Henshaw and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ohio River written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. Reid
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Always a River written by Robert L. Reid and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randall P. Royka
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039145744
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Ohio River Road Trip written by Randall P. Royka and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2018, author and historian Randall P. Royka set out with his wife to retrace the westward movement of pioneers along the Ohio River after American Independence. Part history, part travelogue, Ohio River Road Trip shares on-the-ground experience alongside historical context, told in engaging, readable prose. Royka interweaves his modern-day trip with the memoirs of a nineteenth century Frenchman who covered much of the same ground, imagined as a whimsical conversation across the centuries. It is a wondrous book about the joy of discovery, the freedom in travel, and the lessons to be learned from those that have walked before us. Complete with travel itinerary and maps, this book will appeal to anyone interested in American history and travel in the American Heartland.
Author : R. E. Banta
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813109596
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Ohio written by R. E. Banta and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Originally part of the Rivers of America Series, The Ohio traces the river from its headwaters in Pittsburgh to the point it empties into the Mississippi, nearly a thousand miles and five states later. The Ohio gives us a rare portrait of the frontier era of this region, from backwoods entertainment to learning and the arts. From early exploration to land disputes, clashes with Native American inhabitants to the birth of steamboat travel, the Ohio River comes alive through the retelling of the incidents and anecdotes that shaped its history of what the French called ""the beautiful river.""
Author : Douglas Wissing
Publisher : Guilde Press of Indiana
ISBN 13 : 9781578600625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Traveling the Ohio River Scenic Route written by Douglas Wissing and published by Guilde Press of Indiana. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505484175
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Afloat on the Ohio written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]extensive Indian fortification mounds, the first English agricultural settlement west of the Alleghanies. It is unsafe to establish dates for first discoveries, or for first settlements. The wanderers who, first of all white men, penetrated the fastnesses of the wilderness were mostly of the sort who left no documentary traces behind them. It is probable, however, that the first Redstone settlement was made as early as 1750, the year following the establishment of the Ohio Company, which had been chartered by the English crown and given a half-million[...]."
Author : William A. Alcott
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Three Days on the Ohio River written by William A. Alcott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, William A. Alcott wrote about his journey from Cincinnati to Pittsburg by the Ohio River. He explained that he was aware that it was not the nearest, easiest, or cheapest way. Still, he wished to see the country through which the river ran because he had read a lot about the beautiful Ohio River, with its many towns and villages. This curiosity to witness it himself took him on an adventurous journey on a steamboat to Pittsburg. Alcott tells about his observations of the people of different ethnicities he witnessed during the trip. He includes fascinating descriptions of the place and takes the readers on a journey with him through his skillful imagery.
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pilgrims on the Ohio written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1894 Reuben Gold Thwaites, historian and State Historical Society of Wisconsin director, accompanied by three family members journeyed nearly 1,100 miles down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers in a fifteen-foot rowboat. This title documenting Thwaites's trip features approximately seventy circular black-and-white photographs taken by Thwaites with his #2 Kodak camera and the historian's descriptions about each image. Also included are the essays "Reuben Gold Thwaites: Clio's Pilgrim" by Robert L. Reid and "Reuben Gold Thwaites and the Circular Snapshot" by Dan Fuller.
Author : Emily Foster
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813158222
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Ohio Frontier written by Emily Foster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology -- the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others -- are eyewitness accounts of the Ohio frontier. They tell what people felt and thought about coming to the very fringes of white civilization -- and what the people thought and did who saw them coming. Each succeeding group of newcomers -- hunters, squatters, traders, land speculators, farmers, missionaries, fresh European immigrants -- established a sense of place and community in the wilderness. Their writings tell of war, death, loneliness, and deprivation, as well as courage, ambition, success, and fun. We can see the lust for the land, the struggle for control of it, the terrors and challenges of the forest, and the determination of white settlers to change the land, tame it, "improve" it. The new Ohio these settlers created had no room for its native inhabitants. Their dispossession is a defining theme of the book. As the forests receded and the farms expanded, the Indians were pressured to move out. By the time the last tribe, the Wyandots, left in 1843, they were regarded as relics of the romantic past, and the frontier experience came to a close. Anyone fascinated by the panorama of America's westward migration will respond to the dramatic stories told in these pages.
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582182922
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book On the Storied Ohio written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Storied Ohio tells the story of the six-week, 1100-mile journey down the Ohio River made by the longtime Secretary and Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and Managing Editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, Rueben Gold Thwaites, his family and a Doctor. This new and revised edition of Afloat on the Ohio recounts the 1894 adventure from Redstone, PA to Cairo, IL when Thwaits chose to make the pilgrimage by skiff rather than onboard the faster steamers. It is a logbook of their travels and the curious people they met. Yet it is also a rich retelling of river legend, looking into the past to understand the great waterway while imagining the experiences of the early explorers, pioneers, and settlers who opened up the West through river travel from the East. Book jacket.
Author : Rita T. Kohn
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871952936
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Full Steam Ahead written by Rita T. Kohn and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Steam Ahead is a book of essays celebrating the epic voyage of the steamboat New Orleans, which departed Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 1811. Onboard were Captain Nicholas Roosevelt, his crew, and family. The New Orleans steamed to Louisville, Kentucky, and then back up to Cincinnati, Ohio, astounding the passengers it had taken onboard - for it was the first steamboat capable of traveling upriver as well as down. After waiting a month to safely cross the treacherous Falls of the Ohio, the New Orleans journeyed to Cairo, Illinois, and down the Mississippi to New Orleans, Lousiana. The voyage ushered in a new period of commerce, hastened immigration and building, transforming the Ohio-Mississippi River basin from a raw frontier to an economic and social powerhouse.
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Afloat on the Ohio written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo" authored by Reuben Gold Thwaites takes readers on a remarkable historical journey along the Ohio River. Thwaites's vivid descriptions and attention to detail provide a vivid portrayal of life along the riverbanks. The book offers a unique perspective on travel, exploration, and the people who inhabited the region, painting a rich tapestry of the past against the backdrop of the Ohio's flowing waters.
Author : Rick Rhodes
Publisher : Heron Island Media
ISBN 13 : 9780966586633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Ohio River written by Rick Rhodes and published by Heron Island Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ohio River—In American History and Voyaging on Today's Riveralso addresses the Allegheny, Monongahela, Kanawha, Muskingum, Kentucky, Green, and Wabash Rivers. More than 300 years of American History are woven into this book, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution in the West, our country's expansion into the Northwest Territories, Lewis and Clark on the Ohio River, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, the Steamboat Era, The evolution of the current lock and dam system, and rise and decline of twentieth and twenty-first century river industries, as well as the colorful local histories of 200 river towns. This work also contains 27 river locality sketches and 85 photographs. Eleven appendices list more than 60 river festivals, 59 locks and dams, hundreds of marinas and restaurants, scores of free docks, plus much more. Aspects of safely boating on the rivers, how to prudently negotiate through locks and dams, and appreciating the commercial towboat operators are also discussed.
