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     FROM THE OHIO TO THE GULF.

     VOL. III.




  [Illustration: _Pack Train on the Skaguay Trail, Alaska_]




     _EDITION ARTISTIQUE_

     The World's Famous
     Places and Peoples

     AMERICA

     BY
     JOEL COOK

     In Six Volumes

     Volume VI.

     MERRILL AND BAKER
     New York    London




THIS EDITION ARTISTIQUE OF THE WORLD'S FAMOUS PLACES AND PEOPLES IS
LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND NUMBERED AND REGISTERED COPIES, OF WHICH THIS
COPY IS NO. ____


     Copyright, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VI


                                                            PAGE

     PACK TRAIN ON THE SKAGUAY TRAIL, ALASKA      _Frontispiece_

     TYLER-DAVIDSON FOUNTAIN, CINCINNATI, OHIO               332

     BRIDGE CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI AT ST. LOUIS            396

     CLOISTER OF MISSION, SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO                442

     GATEWAY, GARDEN OF THE GODS, COLORADO                   466

     SITKA, ALASKA, FROM THE SEA                             500




XIX.

FROM THE OHIO TO THE GULF.

     The Ohio River -- Economy -- The Harmonists -- Columbiana --
     Wheeling -- Moundsville -- Marietta -- Parkersburg --
     Blennerhassett's Island -- Point Pleasant -- Maysville --
     Blue Grass -- Lexington -- Cincinnati -- Covington --
     Newport -- Dayton -- North Bend -- Carrolton -- Frankfort --
     Kentucky River -- Daniel Boone -- Louisville --
     Jeffersonville -- Bowling Green -- Mammoth Cave -- Nashville
     -- Battle of Nashville -- Evansville -- Cairo -- Cumberland
     River -- Tennessee River -- Forts Henry and Donelson --
     Battle of Shiloh -- Cumberland Mountains -- Cumberland Gap
     -- Mount Mitchell -- Chattanooga -- Missionary Ridge --
     Lookout Mountain -- Chickamauga Park -- The Chickamauga
     Battles -- Rosecrans against Bragg -- Battle Above the
     Clouds -- Grant Defeats Bragg -- Knoxville -- Parson
     Brownlow -- Greenville -- Andrew Johnson -- Roan Mountain --
     Land of the Sky -- Swannanoa River -- Buncombe -- Asheville
     -- Biltmore -- Hickory-Nut Gap -- French Broad River -- Hot
     Springs -- Spartansburg -- Cowpens -- King's Mountain --
     Charlotte -- Mecklenburg -- Salisbury Prison -- Guilford
     Court House -- Chapel Hill -- Durham -- Raleigh -- Columbia
     -- Aiken -- Augusta -- Chattahoochee River -- Atlanta -- Its
     Siege and Capture -- Sherman's March to the Sea -- Rome --
     Anniston -- Talladega -- Birmingham -- Tuscaloosa -- Macon
     -- Andersonville Prison -- Columbus -- West Point --
     Tuskegee -- Alabama River -- Montgomery -- Cotton
     Plantations -- Selma -- Meridian -- Jackson -- Tombigbee
     River -- Mobile and Its Bay -- Admiral Farragut -- Capture
     of Mobile Forts -- The Pine and the Orange.


THE OHIO RIVER.

The Ohio--the Indian "stream white with froth," the French _La Belle
Riviere_--is the greatest river draining the western <DW72>s of the
Alleghenies. Its basin embraces over two hundred thousand square
miles, and it flows for a thousand miles from Pittsburg to the
Mississippi at Cairo. In the upper reaches the Ohio is about twelve
hundred feet wide, broadening below to twenty-four hundred feet, its
depth varying fifty to sixty feet in the stages between low and high
water, and it goes along with smooth and placid current at one to
three miles an hour, having no fall excepting a rocky rapid of
twenty-six feet descent in two miles at Louisville. From Pittsburg it
flows northwest about twenty-six miles at the bottom of a deep canyon
it has carved down in