Copyright, 1897, by American Book Company.
Reading edition
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 XXIII FAMOUS 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