By William Dean Howells

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Copyright, 1897, by American Book Company.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE.

STORIES OF OHIO

I THE ICE FOLK AND THE EARTH FOLK.
IIOHIO AS A PART OF FRANCE.
IIIOHIO BECOMES ENGLISH.
IVTHE FORTY YEARS’ WAR FOR THE WEST.
VTHE CAPTIVITY OF JAMES SMITH
VITHE CAPTIVITY OF BOONE AND KENTON.
VIITHE RENEGADES.
VIIITHE WICKEDEST DEED IN OUR HISTORY.
IXTHE TORTURE OF COLONEL CRAWFORD
XTHE ESCAPE OF KNIGHT AND SLOVER.
XITHE INDIAN WARS AND ST, CLAIR’S DEFEAT.
XIITHE INDIAN WARS AND WAYNE’S VICTORY.
XIIIINDIAN FIGHTERS.
XIVLATER CAPTIVITIES.
XVINDIAN HEROES AND SAGES.
XVILIFE IN THE BACKWOODS.
XVIITHE FIRST GREAT SETTLEMENTS.
XVIIITHE STATE OF OHIO IN THE WAR OF 1812.
XIXA FOOLISH MAN, A PHILOSOPHER, AND A FANATIC.
XXWAYS OUT.
XXITHE FIGHT WITH SLAVERY.
XXIITHE CIVIL WAR IN OHIO
XXIIIFAMOUS OHIO SOLDIERS
XXIVOHIO STATESMEN
XXVOTHER NOTABLE OHIOANS
XVIINCIDENTS AND CHARACTERISTICS.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Stone Axes

Serpent Mound

Pichawillany, Chief Town of the Miamis

Indians Carry off the Women

Indians Delivering up Captives

Indian War Parties Joining the English

Pioneers

Indian Baptism of James Smith

An Indian Prayer

Daniel Boone Shooting With the Indians

Kenton and Girty

Simon Girty

Massacre of the Christian Indians by The Whites

Execution of Crawford

Knight Escapes

The Defeat of St. Clair

The Escape of Kennan

St. Clair’s Defeat

A White Indian

Wetzel, Indian Fighter

Bearskin Cap on a Ramrod

Brickell Leaves his Indian Father

Alder Returns to his Family

Logan’s Elm

Tecumseh

Tomahawk

Ohio Cabin

Lost in the Woods

Marrieta, Ohio

Admiral Perry on Lake Erie

Aarun Burr and Blennerhassett

Johnny Appleseed

Proclaimed Himself the Lord Jesus Christ

Governor Clinton

Early Railroad

Steamboat Explosion

Indian Evacuation by River

Slavery Issue

John Brown Making Pikes for Slaves

John Morgan Invades Ohio in 1863

Hiding With the Pigs

A Copperhead Walks With General Morgan

Rutherford Hayes

William Tecumseh Sherman

General George A. Custer

James A. Garfield

General Phillip H. Sheridan

Benjamin Harrison

Salmon P. Chase

John Sherman

William Mckinley

Thomas Corwin

Thomas A. Edison

Whitelaw Reid

Harriet Beecher Stowe

George Kennan


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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