On the Ohio (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On the Ohio As originally planned by the party's pathfinder, our 'cross continent steamboat voyage was to have begun at the eastern edge of Kansas and to have ended in western Pennsylvania. It was to be made in three phases: the first was to comprise four hundred and ten miles down the Missouri, the next, two hundred miles or so down the Mississippi to Cairo, and the third one was to cover one thousand and fifty miles up the Ohio, from its mount at Cairo to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - over sixteen hundred miles! Sixteen hundred and sixty miles of "Life on the Mississippi" experiences. I say we planned, but alas for man-made plans! We "reckoned without our hosts" - of Exposition visitors from San Francisco who, during September, 1915, were eastward bound. To the aforementioned hosts must be ascribed the failure to commence our voyaging at Kansas City. Travel-choked railways at the western end robbed us of our whole Missouri voyage by causing us to miss the every-ten-day packet from the Kansas metropolis to St. Louis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.