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THE OHIO RIVER TRADE
1788-1830
BY
Hazel Yearsley Shaw, A.B., 1907
THESIS
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN
HISTORY
IN THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
1908
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS          May 28 1908          THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY          Hazel Yearsley Shaw          ENTITLED The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830          IS APPROVED BY ME AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE          DEGREE OF Master of Arts in History          Evarts B Greene          Instructor in Charge.          Approved: E B Greene          HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF History.
THE OHIO RIVER TRADE
1788-1830
I.THE OHIO RIVER 1788-1811.
I.BOATS AND BOATMEN.
II.ARTICLES OF TRAFFIC, AND PLACES WITH
                                                 WHICH TRADE WAS CARRIED ON.
III.EMIGRATION. GROWTH OF THE RIVER TOWNS.
II.THE OHIO RIVER 1811-1830.
I.THE COMING OF THE STEAM-BOAT.
II.OTHER CRAFT OF THE PERIOD.
III.ARTICLES OF TRAFFIC, AND PLACES WITH
                                                 WHICH TRADE WAS CARRIED ON.
IV.EMIGRATION. GROWTH OF THE RIVER TOWNS.
CHAPTER I.
BOATS AND BOATMEN.
With the opening of the great West, the Ohio River became the mainroute of immigration and commerce, and it is in a careful study ofthe various forms of craft which floated upon "La Belle Riviere"that we catch a glimpse of the rapid and almost marvelous economicdevelopment of the Ohio Valley.
The Indian canoe, though sometimes used by travelers, was entirelyinadequate for the purpose of commerce, and was never used, in anyregular branch of trade.[1] The earliest improvement upon the canoewas the pirogue, an invention of the whites. Like the canoe thisboat was hewn out of the solid log, the difference being that thepirogue had greater width and capacity, and was composed of severalpieces—as if the canoe had been sawed into two equal sections,and a broad, flat piece of timber inserted in the middle, so as togive greater breadth of beam to the vessel.[2] These boats wereoccasionally use                        
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