Joseph Alexander Altsheler 
Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The fleet of boats and canoes bearing supplies for the far east turned from the Mississippi into the wide mouth of the Ohio, and it seemed, for a time, that they had come into a larger river instead of a tributary. The splendid stream, called by the Indians The Beautiful River, flowed silently, a huge flood between high banks, and there was not one among the voyagers who did not feel instinctively the depths beneath him.