        item: #1 of 8
          id: 25998
      author: Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
       title: The Riflemen of the Ohio: A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"
        date: None
       words: 104004
      flesch: 88
     summary: My name is Henry Ware, said Henry, and my friend is Tom Ross. My name is Henry Ware, replied Henry rapidly, and I bring you word that you are about to be attacked by a great force of the allied tribes led by the famous chiefs, Timmendiquas, Yellow Panther, and Red Eagle and the renegades, Girty, Blackstaffe, Eliot, McKee, Quarles, and Wyatt.
    keywords: adam; boat; boone; boy; braithwaite; bushes; chief; colfax; eyes; face; fire; fleet; forest; fort; girty; good; great; half; hand; head; henry; henry ware; indian; jim; lightning; long; look; major; man; men; night; ohio; paul; place; rifle; river; ross; shif'less; sol; time; timmendiquas; tom; warriors; water; way; white; wind; woods; wyandot; young
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 29306
      author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold
       title: Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
        date: None
       words: 68151
      flesch: 70
     summary: Not counting the curious floating boxes and punts, which are knocked together out of driftwood, by boys and poor whites, and are numerous all along shore, the regulation Ohio river skiff is built on graceful lines, but of inch boards, heavily ribbed, and is a sorry weight to handle. Lastly, in the early spring of 1788, came, in Ohio river flatboats, that famous body of New England veterans of the Revolution, under Gen. Rufus Putnam, and planted Marietta--the Plymouth Rock of the West.
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 29606
      author: Thomas, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
       title: The Emigrant or Reflections While Descending the Ohio
        date: None
       words: 11189
      flesch: 79
     summary: _ heart Has learned far better the maternal part-- There was the stream, the willow, and the wild wood, Where, emulous of height, in playing childhood, With hearts encircled, on the beechen tree, Dear one, I carved thy name, but then thou wert with me.
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 41103
      author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
       title: Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries
        date: None
       words: 36394
      flesch: 69
     summary: It will be seen that the national Government issued the deeds, but did not make the surveys.[43] The Indian War which raged from 1790 to 1795 was fought almost wholly north of the Ohio River basin with Fort Washington as the base of supplies.[44] The conflict delayed the pioneer movement into the Ohio Valley but, after the treaty of Greenville (1795), the movement was renewed with a rush. The earliest actual description of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers is contained in the narratives of two men who came to the Ohio about the middle of the eighteenth century.
    keywords: barge; boat; cincinnati; country; craft; current; céloron; day; days; feet; flat; fort; french; great; history; indian; keel; kentucky; land; left; men; miles; mississippi; mouth; navigation; new; ohio company; ohio river; pittsburg; place; rivers; shore; states; time; tons; trade; united; valley; virginia; water; way; west; western
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 44823
      author: Forman, Samuel S.
       title: Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90
        date: None
       words: 18496
      flesch: 70
     summary: General David Forman conducted himself so well, that General Washington tendered his aid in securing a command in the Continental army; but General Forman declined the offer, as he believed he could be more serviceable to remain with the militia in Monmouth county, New Jersey, as they were continually harassed there by the enemy from Staten Island and New York. Mr. Forman mentions that his father, Samuel Forman, did not escape a visit from the Tories and British.
    keywords: boat; british; captain; colonel; country; day; family; forman; fort; general; good; indians; jersey; louisville; major; men; natchez; new; place; river; time; uncle; washington; years
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 46794
      author: Rathborne, St. George
       title: The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio; or, Clearing the Wilderness
        date: None
       words: 66261
      flesch: 84
     summary: And didn't dear old Bob say the bread we cast upon the waters might return ere many days? As the summer waxed and waned Bob and Sandy Armstrong went about their business of providing the family with fresh meat, for game laws were unknown in those early days, and working men must have food to sustain their strength.
    keywords: armstrong; blue; bob; boone; boys; brother; cabin; canoe; close; coming; david; day; eyes; face; father; find; fire; forest; good; great; gun; hand; head; home; hope; indian; jacket; know; life; look; man; men; mother; new; night; pat; river; sandy; saw; time; tree; way; work; young
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 54289
      author: Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
       title: Three Days on the Ohio River
        date: None
       words: 7894
      flesch: 78
     summary: In truth, I did not see it to be more sooty than several other places below it on the river. The central or business part is not peculiarly handsome, I admit; but the Walnut Hills, Mount Auburn, and other places, forming a semicircle, and inclosing it on all sides except on the south-east and south, are, for the beauties of nature and art, almost unrivaled.
    keywords: board; boat; chapter; coal; ohio; passengers; pittsburg; place; river; steamboat; time
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 5686
      author: Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)
       title: Four Months in a Sneak-Box A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico
        date: None
       words: 76694
      flesch: 68
     summary: For lack of one of these little blessings--which the prejudice of friends had influenced me to leave behind--my daily meals for the first two or three weeks generally consisted of cold, cooked canned beef, bread and butter, canned fruits, and cold river water. The sources of the Wakulla were twelve miles above these forks, and consisted of a wonderful spring of crystal water, which could be entered by small boats.
    keywords: bank; bay; bayou; beach; boat; box; camp; canoe; captain; city; coast; country; craft; creek; current; day; days; dollars; end; fact; feet; fire; fish; good; great; gulf; half; head; heavy; home; hour; house; island; lake; left; length; life; man; men; mexico; miles; mississippi; mississippi river; morning; mouth; new; new orleans; night; north; o'clock; ohio; ohio river; orleans; people; place; point; river; route; sea; shanty; shore; sneak; states; stream; time; united; voyage; water; way; west; white; wind; young
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