Ohio River Valley Series – serie
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14 produkter
River Jordan
African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley
Häftad, 1998
458 kr
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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 …
Ohio
Av R E Banta
Häftad, 1998
458 kr
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" 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 …
Ohio Frontier
An Anthology of Early Writings
Av Emily Foster
Häftad, 2000
511 kr
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Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it. The readings in this anthology -- the diaries of a trader and a missionary, the letter of a frontier housewife, the travel account of a wide-eyed young English tourist, the memoir of an escaped slave, and many others -- …
Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio
Inbunden, 1997
683 kr
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America. Enterprise. Metropolis. Cairo. Rome. These are a few of the grandly named villages and towns along the lower Ohio River. The optimism with which early settlers named these towns reveals much about the history of American expansion. Though none became the next great American city, it was …
Front Line of Freedom
African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
Inbunden, 2004
833 kr
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The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white "conductors" and black "passengers." Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates one of its front lines: …
On Jordan's Banks
Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley
Inbunden, 2005
587 kr
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This comprehensive history examines communities on the northern and southern shores of the Ohio River that developed as a consequence of the Civil War. Darrel E. Bigham describes how these communities were shaped by the presence or absence of slavery and how the abolition of slavery and the rise of …
Here Comes The Showboat!
Av Betty Bryant
Häftad, 2010
458 kr
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"I was born at the tail end of a unique and delightful era and raised on one of the last showboats to struggle for survival against the devastating crunch of progress.... Our showboat's express purpose was carrying entertainment to hundreds of thousands of river-bottom farmers along our …
Flatheads and Spooneys
Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley
Av Jens Lund
Häftad, 2010
445 kr
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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 …
Lion of the Forest
James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer
Häftad, 2010
458 kr
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James B. Finley -- circuit rider, missionary, prison reformer, church official -- transformed the Ohio River Valley in the nineteenth century. As a boy he witnessed frontier raids, and as a youth he was known as the "New Market Devil" In adulthood, he traveled the Ohio forests, converting thousands …
Towboat on the Ohio
Häftad, 2010
383 kr
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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 …
Front Line of Freedom
African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley
Häftad, 2010
458 kr
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The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white "conductors" and black "passengers." Keith P. Griffler takes a new, battlefield-level view of the war against American slavery as he reevaluates one of its front lines: …
Kentucky River
Häftad, 2003
458 kr
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A sweeping cultural history, The Kentucky River reflects the rich tapestry of life along the banks. Flowing with tales of river ghosts and hidden treasures lying in the backwaters, the book records the myths and events the river has spawned. Bill Ellis also celebrates the Kentucky's influence on …
Life on the Ohio
Av James Coomer
Häftad, 2004
479 kr
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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 …
American Grit
A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier
Av Emily Foster
Häftad, 2009
517 kr
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In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the …
