Front Line of Freedom

Keith P Griffler

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white "conductors" and blac... Lees meer

Here Comes the Showboat!

Betty Bryant

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• "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 cr... Lees meer

Life on the Ohio

James Coomer

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• 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 h... Lees meer

Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio

Darrel E Bigham

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• " America. Enterprise. Metropolis. Cairo. Rome. These are a few of the grandly named villages and towns along the lower Ohio River. The optimism with ... Lees meer

On Jordan's Banks

Darrel E Bigham

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vi... Lees meer

The Ohio Frontier

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• "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 ... Lees meer

Flatheads and Spooneys

Jens Lund

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• 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 occupat... Lees meer

Front Line of Freedom

Keith P Griffler

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• The Underground Railroad, an often misunderstood antebellum institution, has been viewed as a simple combination of mainly white "conductors" and blac... Lees meer

Lion of the Forest

Charles C Cole

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• James B. Finley -- circuit rider, missionary, prison reformer, church official -- transformed the Ohio River Valley in the nineteenth century. As a bo... Lees meer

American Grit

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• 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 S... Lees meer

Towboat on the Ohio

James E Casto

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• 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... Lees meer

The Kentucky River

William E Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• "A sweeping cultural history, The Kentucky River reflects the rich tapestry of life along the banks. Flowing with tales of river ghosts and hidden tre... Lees meer

American Grit

Anna Briggs Bentley

• Hardcover | Ohio River Valley
• In 1826, Anna Briggs Bentley, a pioneer woman, left her close Quaker community for frontier Ohio along with her husband and their six children. Presen... Lees meer

River Jordan

Joe William Trotter

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the undergro... Lees meer

The Ohio

R E Banta

• Paperback | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• " 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 Missis... Lees meer

Here Comes the Showboat!

Betty Bryant

• Hardcover | Engels | Ohio River Valley
• "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 cr... Lees meer