The Ohio River

Author : Jerry M. Hay
Publisher : Inland Waterways Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781605852171

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Ohio River Guidebook by Jerry M. Hay Pdf

This is a practical guidebook to navigating the Ohio River and traveling along the river from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cairo, Illinois. It includes detailed navigational charts and historical information about the river, its locks, tributaries, islands, and anchorage locations. It also covers river-friendly cities, towns and communities as well as highways and roads adjacent or leading to the river. It includes GPS coordinates, distance markers, and warnings.

Author : Robert Schrage,Donald Clare
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 073854308X

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Along the Ohio River by Robert Schrage,Donald Clare Pdf

An illustrated journey along the Ohio River offers photographic images of this dynamic and important American waterway, including riverfront cities, commerce, industry, natural and scenic wonders, and more, from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Louisville, Kentucky. Original.

Author : David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson
Publisher : University of Florida Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683402030

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Falls of the Ohio River by David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson Pdf

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.

Author : Susan Sleeper-Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640594

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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest by Susan Sleeper-Smith Pdf

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest riparian, wetland, and terrestrial resources of every description and breathtaking richness. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion. By the late eighteenth century, Montreal silversmiths were sending their best work to Wabash Indian villages, Ohio Indian women were setting the fashions for Indigenous clothing, and European visitors were marveling at the sturdy homes and generous hospitality of trading entrepots such as Miamitown. Confederacy, agrarian abundance, and nascent urbanity were, however, both too much and not enough. Kentucky settlers and American leaders—like George Washington and Henry Knox—coveted Indian lands and targeted the Indian women who worked them. Americans took women and children hostage to coerce male warriors to come to the treaty table to cede their homelands. Appalachian squatters, aspiring land barons, and ambitious generals invaded this settled agrarian world, burned crops, looted towns, and erased evidence of Ohio Indian achievement. This book restores the Ohio River valley as Native space.

Author : Joe William TrotterJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813184319

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River Jordan by Joe William TrotterJr. Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307790460

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That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert Pdf

An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.

Author : Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Ohio River
ISBN : UCAL:$B725546

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The Ohio River by Archer Butler Hulbert Pdf

Author : R. E. Banta
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0813109590

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The Ohio by R. E. Banta Pdf

" 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 : Robert L. Reid
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019406241

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Always a River by Robert L. Reid Pdf

Author : Rick Rhodes
Publisher : Heron Island Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : 0966586638

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The Ohio River by Rick Rhodes Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251965193

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The Ohio River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robin Yocum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633881297

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A Brilliant Death by Robin Yocum Pdf

A 2017 EDGAR® AWARD FINALIST! Amanda Baron died in a boating accident on the Ohio River in 1953. Or, did she? While it was generally accepted that she had died when a coal barge rammed the pleasure boat she was sharing with her lover, her body was never found. Travis Baron was an infant when his mother disappeared. After the accident and the subsequent publicity, Travis’s father scoured the house of all evidence that Amanda Baron had ever lived, and her name was never to be uttered around him. Now in high school, Travis yearns to know more about his mother. With the help of his best friend, Mitch Malone, Travis begins a search for the truth about the mother he never knew. The two boys find an unlikely ally: an alcoholic former detective who served time for falsifying evidence. Although his reputation is in tatters, the information the detective provides about the death of Amanda Baron is indisputable—and dangerous. Nearly two decades after her death, Travis and Mitch piece together a puzzle lost to the dark waters of the Ohio River. They know how Amanda Baron died, and why. Now what do they do with the information?

Author : Mark Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Fishes
ISBN : 0964330903

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Fishing the Ohio River by Mark Hicks Pdf

Author : Jens Lund
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813184777

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Flatheads and Spooneys by Jens Lund Pdf

Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.

Author : James E. Casto
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439622988

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The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 by James E. Casto Pdf

From the time settlers first pushed into the Ohio Valley, floods were an accepted fact of life. After each flood, people shoveled the mud from their doors and set about rebuilding their towns. In 1884, the Ohio River washed away 2,000 homes. In 1913, an even worse flood swept down the river. People labeled it the "granddaddy" of all floods. Little did they know there was worse yet to come. In 1937, raging floodwaters inundated thousands of houses, businesses, factories, and farms in a half dozen states, drove one million people from their homes, claimed nearly 400 lives, and recorded $500 million in damages. Adding to the misery was the fact that the disaster came during the depths of the Depression, when many families were already struggling. Images of America: The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 brings together 200 vintage images that offer readers a look at one of the darkest chapters in the region's history.