Sycamore Shores Part of the material in this volume was first printed in the Cincinnati Times-Star, and the writers thanks are due it for permission to reprint. Acknowl edgments are also made to Captain Tom Greene for his critical examination of the Ohio River and Kanawha chapters, to Mr. John B. Hunley for his critical examination of the Wabash chapter, and to the writers son, Robert B. Firestone, for his services as secretary and copyreader. Contents PAGE Preface xi HAPTEB I. Embarkation 1 II. The Beautiful River 16 III. ...
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Sycamore Shores Part of the material in this volume was first printed in the Cincinnati Times-Star, and the writers thanks are due it for permission to reprint. Acknowl edgments are also made to Captain Tom Greene for his critical examination of the Ohio River and Kanawha chapters, to Mr. John B. Hunley for his critical examination of the Wabash chapter, and to the writers son, Robert B. Firestone, for his services as secretary and copyreader. Contents PAGE Preface xi HAPTEB I. Embarkation 1 II. The Beautiful River 16 III. Toward Dixie 24 IV. Into the Back Country 40 V. Among the Pearl-Fishers 51 VI. Under Mountain Ramparts 63 VII. Beside Boundary Waters 74 VIII. With the Log Fleets 90 IX. It Comes in at Cincinnati 104 X. Below the Rim of Bluegrass 111 XL Up Salt River 124 XII. River of the Delawares 135 XIII. Where Men Grow Tall 146 XIV. A Haughty Passageway 154 XV. Small and Friendly 163 XVI. Seat of Aboriginal Capitals 170 viii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XVII. Highway of Old France 178 XVIII. Through a Prairie Land 192 XIX. The Father of Waters 201 XX. Where Rivers Meet 208 XXI. To the Land of Cotton 214 XXII. The Battle at a Landing 223 XXIII. It Gives and It Takes Away 232 Bibliographical Notes 241 Prefc ace THE WAYS OF RIVERS ARE COMPELLING, THE MEETING OF their waters an exciting thing. They draw the boundaries of countries, judge between commonwealths, give and take away. Though they dwindle in every drought, they re turn with every rain, in an hour replenishing themselves, in a day knocking at the gates of frightened cities. Whether they carry men and goods or flow through lands empty of inhabitant, whether they are used or neglected, is naught to them. They have work of their ownto do. Behind the wall of the Appalachians, the life of the Old West moved along rivers when there were no roads save buffalo streets, Indian trails, and the blazed paths of the pioneer. Because travel on land was arduous going either afoot or on horseback, and because there could be no wheeled traffic, people took to the rivers, and soon the backwoodsmen were known on the seaboard, not as the Folk of the Wilderness, but as the Men of the Western Waters. A light canoe could carry a considerable burden, and in a single day cover a distance that was a weeks journey overland. Only in high water might there be traffic with the outside world. In the spring and autumn freshets, x PREFACE flatboats which held even more than the railroad freight cars that were to replace them made their way down creeks unknown to modern geography. Steamboats plied on rivers the names of which are no longer heard save when they are in flood. Beside these waterways savage cultures flourished and faded, and a new civilization came into being. The pro cession of time that moved along them shows mound builder, Indian, fur trader, hunter, voyageur, priest, soldier, settler, hardy generations of boatmen and steam boatmen, children of commerce, the folk of fashion. Their banks were the scene of obscure but deadly battles among four races, of fratricidal conflict in the War of States, They are occupied now by a people scarcely conscious of their inheritance, yet whose lives have been shaped by these memories, and by running water. Before there were counties or even states, there was a Muskingum coun try, a Scioto country, a Licking country, a Wabash coun try, and other areas that by common acceptance were true provincesof the woods. The dim outlines of these grand divisions of yesterday show through the political bound aries of modern maps as a pagan text of Greece shows through the pious scrawl of monks on a palimpsest. The first store in the Old West was a flatboat, the first theater a showboat, the first rowdy hero a keelboatman and now its rivers are the last wilderness...
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