Chapter VIII: 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
BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT Romances by W.D. Howells 1907 CONTENTS CHAP.
A Sleep and a Forgetting
The Eidolons of Brooks Alford
A Memory that Worked Overtime
A Case of Metaphantasmia
Editha
Braybridge’s Offer
The Chick of the Easter Egg
ILLUSTRATIONS
Their joint study of her dancing-card did not help them out
A lively matron, of as youthful a temperament as the lively girls she brought in her train, burst upon them
“She shook her head, and said,... ‘Nobody has been here, except—’”
“No burglar could have missed me if he had wanted an easy mark”
“‘You shall not say that!’”
“She glared at editha. ‘What you got that black on for?’”
A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE. BY W. D. HOWELLS. 1873. CONTENTS
I. UP THE SAGUENAY. II. MRS. ELLISON'S LITTLE MANEUVRE. III. ON THE WAY BACK TO QUEBEC. IV. MR. ARBUTON'S INSPIRATION. V. MR. ARBUTON MAKES HIMSELF AGREEABLE. VI. A LETTER OF KITTY'S. VII. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. VIII. NEXT MORNING. IX. MR. ARBUTON'S INFATUATION. X. MR. ARBUTON SPEAKS. XI. KITTY ANSWERS. XII. THE PICNIC AT CHATEAU-BIGOT. XIII. ORDEAL. XIV. AFTERWARDS.
A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1893 CONTENTS
First Paper Second Paper ILLUSTRATIONS
Tourists at Montreux
Sign of the White Cross Inn
Entrance to Villeneuve
Post-office, Villeneuve
The Castle of Chillon
A Railroad Servant
A Bit of Villeneuve
The Prisoner of Chillon
One of the Fountains
"They helped to make the hay in the marshes"
Cattle at the Fountains
Washing Clothes in the Lake
Flirtation at the Fountains
The Wine-press
Castle of Aigle
The Market at Vevay
The Market, Vevay—A Bargain before the Notary
Germans at Montreux
Church Terrace, Montreux
Tour up the Lake
A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS By W. D. Howells CONTENTS
A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS THE PURSUIT OF THE PIANO. A DIFFICULT CASE. THE MAGIC OF A VOICE. A CIRCLE IN THE WATER.
THE STORY OF A PLAY A Novel BY W. D. HOWELLS 1898 CONTENTS CHAPTER I.
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