CONTENTS.
                                               PAGC
PREFACE.                                         xi
                    CHAPTER I.
On the Monongahela-The over-mountain path-Red-
  stone Old Fort-The Youghiogheny-Braddock's
  defeat. -      -   -    -     -    -   -   -   I
                    CHAPTER II.
First day on the Ohio-At Logstown. -  -  -    - 22

                   CHAPTER III.
Shingis Old Town-The dynamiter-Yellow Creek.  - 29
                   CHAPTER IV.
An industrial regicn-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
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