Author: Otis K. Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A good history by one of the state's leading historians, the book has been adopted for use as a textbook for junior high school students.
West Virginia: the State and Its People
Author: Otis K. Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A good history by one of the state's leading historians, the book has been adopted for use as a textbook for junior high school students.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A good history by one of the state's leading historians, the book has been adopted for use as a textbook for junior high school students.
West Virginia and Its People
Author: Thomas Condit Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
West Virginia
Author: Arnout Hyde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
West Virginia
Author: Otis Rice
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813127335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social institutions, analyzing the events and personalities that have shaped the state. To create this history, the authors weave together many strands from the past and present. Included among these are geological and geographical features; the prehistoric inhabitants; exploration and settlement; relations with the Indians; the land systems and patterns of ownership; the Civil War and the formation of the state from the western counties of Virginia; the legacy of Reconstruction; politics and government; industrial development; labor problems and advances; and cultural aspects such as folkways, education, religion, and national and ethnic influences. For this second edition, the authors have added a new chapter, bringing the original material up to date and carrying the West Virginia story through the presidential election of 1992. Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history and Stephen W. Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813127335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social institutions, analyzing the events and personalities that have shaped the state. To create this history, the authors weave together many strands from the past and present. Included among these are geological and geographical features; the prehistoric inhabitants; exploration and settlement; relations with the Indians; the land systems and patterns of ownership; the Civil War and the formation of the state from the western counties of Virginia; the legacy of Reconstruction; politics and government; industrial development; labor problems and advances; and cultural aspects such as folkways, education, religion, and national and ethnic influences. For this second edition, the authors have added a new chapter, bringing the original material up to date and carrying the West Virginia story through the presidential election of 1992. Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history and Stephen W. Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture
Author: Darla Spencer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467118516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467118516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be.
Haunted West Virginia
Author: Patty A. Wilson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040820
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Thrilling stories of supernatural occurences in West Virginia, including the restless spirits of Harpers Ferry, the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, the ghosts of Twistabout Ridge, the phantom hitchhikers on the West Virginia Turnpike, and many more.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493040820
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Thrilling stories of supernatural occurences in West Virginia, including the restless spirits of Harpers Ferry, the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, the ghosts of Twistabout Ridge, the phantom hitchhikers on the West Virginia Turnpike, and many more.
West Virginia Curiosities
Author: Rick Steelhammer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461747236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Laugh your way through the pages of West VirginiaCuriosities, your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Mountain State has to offer!
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461747236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Laugh your way through the pages of West VirginiaCuriosities, your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Mountain State has to offer!
West Virginia and its people
Author: T.C. Miller
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871599931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871599931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
West Virginia
Author: Wende Fazio
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, religions, culture, sports, arts, and people of the Mountain State.
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN:
Category : West Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, religions, culture, sports, arts, and people of the Mountain State.
West Virginia
Author: Joe Halstead
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944700041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie's living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot -- all while suppressing the accent that gives him away. Spurred by an artistic curiosity surrounding his silent and private father, Jamie goes home, staying with his disabled mother and sister in their trailer, conveniently located between two Walmarts. Always poorer than the local coal miners, Jamie's family relies on welfare, but it is the mystery of his father's suicide that will help define Jamie's identity and possibly decide whether he leaves West Virginia for good.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944700041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie's living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot -- all while suppressing the accent that gives him away. Spurred by an artistic curiosity surrounding his silent and private father, Jamie goes home, staying with his disabled mother and sister in their trailer, conveniently located between two Walmarts. Always poorer than the local coal miners, Jamie's family relies on welfare, but it is the mystery of his father's suicide that will help define Jamie's identity and possibly decide whether he leaves West Virginia for good.