Category: History - American
With the opening of the great West, the Ohio River became the main route of immigration and commerce, and it is in a careful study of the various forms of craft which floated upon "La Belle Riviere" that we catch a glimpse of the rapid and almost marvelous economic development...
The application of steam power to the purposes of navigation, forms the brightest era in the history of the West. It was that which contributed more than any other single cause...
2. Part 2Governor Carondelet, at New Orleans, received orders from the home government to deliver the posts on the Mississippi, but refused to do so, as he feared that the English were a...
3. Part 3The emigration westward, even in 1788, was very great, the commandant at Fort Harmar reporting forty-five hundred persons having passed that post between February and June of th...
1. Part 1With the opening of the great West, the Ohio River became the main route of immigration and commerce, and it is in a careful study of the various forms of craft which floated up...
5. Part 5[253] Niles, Weekly Register, VI., 320. Louisiana Gasette, July 5, 1814. "She has two cabins, and four State rooms for private families, and will conveniently accommodate 100 pe...
7. Part 7Salt from the Kenawha works was sent up the highest boatable waters of the Allegheny to regions formerly supplied from the Salines of New York.[469] Flint describes the boats st...
6. Part 6During the year 1812, 100 loaded boats left Chilicothe for Natchez, New Orleans, and other ports. In the same year a vessel of 400 tons was built at the mouth of the Scioto (own...
8. Part 8The 'Register' of May 14, 1825 says, "Emigration is powerful to the West."[522] Kentucky was at this time losing her citizens by hundreds and thousands, by removal to the west f...
9. Part 9Harris, Thaddeus M. Journal of a tour into the territory northwest of the Alleghany Mountains, made in the spring of the year 1803, with a geographical and historical account of...