Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo (Shawnee Classics)
Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo (Shawnee Classics)
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
21 Feb, 2019
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
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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