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Title: Official guide of the Centennial exposition of the Ohio Valley and central states
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cincinnati. Centennial exposition of the Ohio Valley and central states, 1888. (from old catalog) Mullen, John F. C., Cincinnati, pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, J. F. C. Mullen
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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trated to the headwaters ofthe Mississippi, but his accounts then were regarded as fabulous.Daniel Boone, the intrepid huntsman of the Dark and Bloody Ground,had passed a tedious and unwilling sojourn in the easterly portion, andreturned only to praise the land of his captivity. And so a contract was made for a million and a half acres lying onthe Ohio, the Muskingum, and Hockhocking Rivers; General Rufus 9-7 OFFICIAL GLIDE OF THE Putnam entered upon it with a band of sturdy veterans, and from theirprimitive collection of rude cabins has been built up the city of Marietta.Then came General John Cleves Symmes, and Israel Ludlow, RobertCaldwell, Scott Treverse, and Even Shelby, the latter with the smokeof Kings Mountain in his eyes, and the shouts of the Watonga moun-taineers still ringing in his ears. And from their sufferings and hard-ships, planning and planting, has grown up the city of Cincinnati,which for sixty years was the metropolitan, and is, to-day, the QueenCity of the West.
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IVEachinepy jjall. Cl^SCINNATI tE.NTIii).NIAL EXPOSITION. 2S A Glimpse at the Last Century. Two great warpaths once led the way from the great lakes and theseaboard to the dark and bloody battle grounds of Kentucky. Theymet at a point on the Ohio, opposite the mouth of the Licking River,and here, in the stillness of midnight, under the cover of darkness, oncethe red man, coming down by either path, crossed over the Ohio to re-turn Avith the barbaric trophies of his prowess at arms, or to leave hisbones to whiten w^here he fell. Such is the fortune of war. To-day, two main arteries of traffic mark the courses of these respec-tive warpaths to their place of meeting; the one tends direct from thenorth, from the western shore of Lake Erie; the other follows the mean-derings of the Little Miami River, coming from far beyond its source.The supremacy of this convergent point of warpath then and iron high-ways now, both the barbarian and his enlightened successor have ac-knowledged; and in th

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