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Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo (Shawnee Classics)

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

2019-02-21 20:45:45

Nineteenth-century American travel literature provides fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people and into the history of the nation's settlement. Reuben Gold Thwaites's Afloat on the Ohio is a fine example of the genre, rich in Ohio Rive ... Read more
Nineteenth-century American travel literature provides fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people and into the history of the nation's settlement. Reuben Gold Thwaites's Afloat on the Ohio is a fine example of the genre, rich in Ohio River personalities, legends, and history as seen through Thwaites's eyes. His six-week journey by skiff covered a thousand miles from Redstone, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi. Thwaites's voyage echoes those taken by early explorers, pioneers, and settlers who opened up the West through river travel from the East. Less

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File size205.169 KB
Print pages344
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2008-10-09
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780809322688,
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Reuben Gold Thwaites (May 15, 1853 – October 22, 1913) was an American librarian and historical writer.Thwaites was born in 1853 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. His parents were William George and Sar...

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