Download or read book Flatboats on the Ohio written by Catherine E. Chambers and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic series tells absorbing stories while relaying important information.
Download or read book Flatboats on the Ohio written by Catherine E. Chambers and published by Troll Communications Llc. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, the Sawyers leave Massachusetts to travel to the Ohio River valley for the beginning of a new life.
Download or read book The Wreck of the America in Southern Illinois written by Mark J. Wagner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement, 2016 Flatboats were the most prolific type of vessel on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the early 1800s. Thousands of these boats descended the two rivers each year, carrying not only valuable cargo to New Orleans but also western-bound emigrants to newly opened territories. By the late 1800s, flatboats had completely disappeared, and no intact examples were known to exist. Our knowledge of these historic vessels had been limited to illustrations, memoirs, and traveler accounts. That changed in 2000 after local residents found a wreck on the Ohio River shoreline in Illinois. Archaeologist Mark J. Wagner and his colleagues from Southern Illinois University Carbondale investigated extensively and established that the wreck was a pre–Civil War flatboat, which they named America, after a nearby town. In The Wreck of the America in Southern Illinois: A Flatboat on the Ohio River, Wagner provides a brief description and general history of flatboats and the various reasons they wrecked—such as poor workmanship and encounters with pirates, storms, rocks, and floating trees. Wagner describes the remains of the America, how it was constructed, the artifacts found nearby and inside—including pewter spoons, utensils with bone handles, metal buttons, and an iron felling axe—and the probable cause of its sinking. Wagner concludes with a history of the America since its discovery in 2000 and a plea that the boat be removed from the riverbank and preserved before the Ohio washes it away.
Download or read book Flatboat to Towboat written by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towboat on the Ohio written by James E. Casto and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get a personal look at what it is like to work on the Ohio River, newspaperman James E. Casto spent eight days aboard the Blazer as it traveled the Ohio from Huntington, West Virginia, to Pittsburgh, up the Allegheny and the Mongahela, and then back to Huntington. The Paul G. Blazer, a gleaming white towboat owned and operated by Ashland Oil, pushes a group—or "tow," as the rivermen call it—of nine barges on this trip. Along the way, Casto introduces us to Captain Ronnie Davis, pilot Ronnie Burge, engineer Steve Bellomy, the mates, the deckhands, and the cook, as well as the river itself, the life and the beauty that are the Ohio. Interwoven with the narrative of the trip upriver and back is the history of commerce on the Ohio—of how the flatboats and keelboats gave way to the steamboats and how, in turn, the steamboats were replaced by today's powerful, diesel-powered boats such as the Blazer. Mark Twain wrote that the Mississippi had a new story to tell every day. The same can be said of the Ohio. As engaging as it is informative, Towboat on the Ohio tells one of the many stories of the busy, hardworking Ohio River.
Download or read book Flatboating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers written by Barbara Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flatboats and Wagon Wheels written by Mildred Houghton Comfort and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After fighting in the American Revolution, Mr. Martin decides to move his family from their Pennsylvania farm to Ohio where there were more opportunities for settlers. The family has many adventures before settling in Losantiville.
Download or read book Life on the Ohio written by James Coomer and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " When young James Coomer was offered a job as deckhand on the tugboat Pat Murphy at a dollar an hour, he took his first smell of diesel fuel and knew he was hooked. Life on the Ohio puts the reader in the pilot's seat as Coomer wrestles with runaway barges, navigates through ice and fog, pacifies angry crew members, and contends with the loneliness of working a thirty-day stretch. A modern counterpart to Twain's account of life as a steamboat pilot, Life on the Ohio depicts the working river as it is today with its immense towboats, gigantic locks and dams, and millions of tons of cargo. Coomer captures the movement of the boats and the colorful language of river people. Coomer admits that he stuck at his job not for money but for love of the river and his work. "Over the years I had experiences I wouldn't trade for a barge full of gold," he says, "and that's what this book is all about."
Download or read book History of Navigation in the Ohio River Basin written by Michael C. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Flatboats written by George Cary Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flatboats on the Ohio written by Troll Books and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last of the Flatboats written by George Eggleston and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio written by R. E. Banta and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 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.""
Download or read book The Keelboat Age on Western Waters written by Leland D. Baldwin and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1941-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of river boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat. In a deft combination of thorough research and interesting narrative, Baldwin recreates life on the keelboats and flatboats that plied the Ohio, Mississippi, and other rivers from revolutionary days until about 1820. No one knows who put the first keel along the bottom of one big, clumsy river craft used by the pioneers. but the change made the boats far easier to manage, and travel in both directions became practical all the way to New Orleans.Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of locomotion, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. But he never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.The Keelboat Age is a segment cut from the history of the frontier, showing the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The rivers were great arteries, carrying a restless people into a new land. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build a nation.
Download or read book The Last of the Flatboats A Story of the Mississippi and Its Interesting Family of Rivers written by George Cary Eggleston and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Give it up, boys; you’re tired, and you’ve been in the water too long already. And, besides, I’ve decided that this job’s done.” It was Ed Lowry who spoke. He was lying on the sand under a big sycamore tree that had slid, roots and all, off the river bank above, and now stood leaning like a drunken man trying to stand upright. Ed was a tall, slender, and not at all robust boy, with a big head, and a tremendous shock of half-curly hair to make it look bigger. The four boys whom he addressed had been diving in the river and struggling with something under the water, but without success. Three of them accepted Ed’s suggestion, as all of them were accustomed to do, not because he had any particular right to make suggestions to them, but because he was so far the moral and intellectual superior of every boy in town, and was always so wise and kindly and just in his decisions, that they had come to regard his word as a sort of law without themselves quite knowing why. Three of the boys left the river, therefore, shook the water off their sunburned bodies,—for they had no towels,—and slipped into the loose shirt and cottonade trousers that constituted their sole costume. The other boy—Ed’s younger brother, Philip—was not so ready to accept suggestions. In response to Ed’s call, he cried out in a sort of mock heroics:— “Never say die! In the words of the immortal Lawrence, or some other immortal who died a long time ago, ‘Don’t give up the ship!’ I’m going to get that pig if it takes all summer.” The boys all laughed as they threw themselves down upon the sand by Ed. “Might as well let him alone,” said Will Moreraud; “he never will quit.” Meantime Phil had dived three or four times more, each time going down head first, wrestling with the object as long as he could hold his breath, and each time manifestly moving one end or the other of it nearer the shore, and into shallower water, before coming to the surface again. When he had caught his breath after the third or fourth struggle, he called out:— “I say, boys, it isn’t a pig at all, but a good average-sized elephant. ‘Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish,’ I’m going to get that animal ashore.”
Download or read book Three Days on the Ohio River written by William A. Alcott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, William A. Alcott wrote about his journey from Cincinnati to Pittsburg by the Ohio River. He explained that he was aware that it was not the nearest, easiest, or cheapest way. Still, he wished to see the country through which the river ran because he had read a lot about the beautiful Ohio River, with its many towns and villages. This curiosity to witness it himself took him on an adventurous journey on a steamboat to Pittsburg. Alcott tells about his observations of the people of different ethnicities he witnessed during the trip. He includes fascinating descriptions of the place and takes the readers on a journey with him through his skillful imagery.
Download or read book Flatboatin on the Old Ohio written by Carl R. Bogardus and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
