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

Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809322684 ISBN 13: 9780809322688

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.



This edition is a reprinting of the original 1897 edition.



 

About this title

About the Author

Journalist, librarian, and editor Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853­– 1913) was managing editor of the Wisconsin State Journal and secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. A prolific editor and writer, he edited the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (73 volumes) and Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (8 volumes) and wrote France in America, 1497­– 1763 and Wisconsin: The Americanization of a French Settlement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809322684
• ISBN 13: 9780809322688
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344