The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830

The Ohio River Trade 1788-1830 is a thesis submitted by Hazel Yearsley Shaw in the University of Illinois. Shaw discussed the development of river towns and their increased importance when the river trade became an ever-growing object of importance.

Contents of the book include:

The Ohio River1788-1811-

Boats and Boatmen.

Articles of traffic and places With Which trade was carried

Emigration. Growth of the River Towns

The Ohio River 1811-1830-

The Coming of the Steam-Boat

Other craft of the period

Articles of traffic, and places with which trade was carried on

Emigration. Growth of the River Towns