untain path--Redstone
Old Fort--The Youghiogheny--Braddock's defeat. 1

Chapter II.

First day on the Ohio--At Logstown. 22

Chapter III.

Shingis Old Town--The dynamiter--Yellow Creek. 29

Chapter IV.

An industrial region--Steubenville--Mingo Bottom--In
a steel mill--Indian character. 39

Chapter V.

House-boat life--Decadence of steamboat traffic--Wheeling,
and Wheeling Creek. 50

Chapter VI.

The Big Grave--Washington and Round Bottom--A
lazy man's paradise--Captina Creek--George Rogers
Clark at Fish Creek--Southern types. 64

Chapter VII.

In Dixie--Oil and natural gas, at Witten's Bottom--The
Long Reach--Photographing crackers--Visitors in camp. 77

Chapter VIII.

Life ashore and afloat--Marietta, "the Plymouth Rock
of the West"--The Little Kanawha--The story of
Blennerhassett's Island. 87

Chapter IX.

Poor whites--First library in the West--An hour at
Hockingport--A hermit fisher. 99

Chapter X.

Cliff-dwellers, on Long Bottom--Pomeroy Bend--Letart's
Island, and Rapids--Game, in the early day--Rainy
weather--In a "cracker" home. 109

Chapter XI.

Battle of Point Pleasant--The story of
Gallipolis--Rosebud--Huntington--The genesis of a
houseboater. 125

Chapter XII.

In a fog--The Big Sandy--Rainy weather--Operatic
gypsies--An ancient tavern. 139

Chapter XIII.

The Scioto, and the Shawanese--A night at
Rome--Limestone--Keels, flats, and boatmen of the
olden time. 150

Chapter XIV.

Produce-boats--A dead town--On the Great Bend--Grant's
birthplace--The Little Miami--The genesis
of Cincinnati. 168

Chapter XV.

The story of North Bend--The "shakes"--Driftwood--Rabbit
hash--A side-trip to Big Bone Lick. 182

Chapter XVI.

New Switzerland--An old-time river pilot--Houseboat
life on the lower reaches--A philosopher in
rags--Wooded solitudes--Arrival at Louisville. 202

Chapter XVII.

Storied Louisville--Red Indians and white--A night on
Sa