West Virginia History

 
 

WEST VIRGINIA: A HISTORY by John A. Williams Paperback from West Virginia University Press

West Virginia: A History by Otis K. Rice, Stephen W. Brown Hardcover from The University Press of Kentucky

Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage Paperback from University of Pittsburgh Press

West Virginia Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff (Curiosities Series) by Rick Steelhammer Paperback from Globe Pequot

Haunted West Virginia: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Mountain State (Haunted Series) by Patty A. Wilson Paperback from Stackpole Books 2007-

The West Virginia Encyclopedia by Ken Sullivan; Editor Hardcover from The West Virginia Humanities Council

History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West Virginia by Wills De Hass Paperback from McClain Printing Company

Bloodletting in Appalachia: The Story of West Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars and Other Thrilling Incidents of Its Coal Fields by Howard Burton Lee Paperback from Mcclain Printing Co

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars Paperback from PM Press

The Shenandoah (West Virginia Classics) by Julia Davis Hardcover from West Virginia Classics

Bloodletting in Appalachia: The Story of West Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars and Other Thrilling Incidents of Its Coal Fields
by Howard B. Lee
An account of one of the less savory episodes in American history by an eye witness.
Paperback from McClain Printing Company
1988
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The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan in Randolph County, Virginia (West Virginia and Appalachia Series, 2)
by Philip Pendleton Kennedy, David Hunter Strother, Timothy Sweet, Phillip Pendleton Kennedy
Hardcover from West Virginia University Press

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
by Gerald M. Stern
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.57 x 6.87 x 4.23
Publisher: Random House; (March 1977)
ISBN: 0394723430

The Butterflies of West Virginia and Their Caterpillars (Pitt Series in Nature and Natural History)
by Thomas J. Allen
Listed under Butterflies

Bicycling Through Civil War History: In Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Virginia
by Kurt Detwiller
Spiral-bound from Howell Pr
1994

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden
by Quentin Bell, Virginia Nicholson, Alen Macweeney
Hardcover from Frances Lincoln Limited

Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World)
by Joe William Trotter
Paperback from Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref)
1990

The Coffin Quilt: The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys
by Ann Rinaldi
Historical Fiction
Feuds among the mountain folks of West Virginia and Kentucky, particularly the bloody skirmishes between the Hatfield and McCoy families, are often celebrated in American legend and folksongs. In The Coffin Quilt, Ann Rinaldi mines this rich vein of Americana for a fascinating tale that closely follows the real events of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, but which also has implications for our own violent times. Rinaldi--known for Cast Two Shadows, An Acquaintance with Darkness, and other historical fiction novels for teens--suggests in her author's note that "the Civil War conditioned men who fought in it to kill and to hate." Consequently, men came home from the war to their mountains with minds and rifles primed to react to the slightest trespass upon their exaggerated loyalty to kinfolk. The story is told by Fanny, the youngest of the fourteen McCoy children, who traces the beginnings of the famous feud to a confused Civil War shooting and a dispute over a herd of pigs. When her favorite older sister, the beautiful Roseanna, runs off with handsome Johnse Hatfield, it's like a bucket of gasoline thrown on the smoldering hatred between the two families. Warned by the apparition she calls Yeller Thing, Fanny is nonetheless a helpless witness to ambushes and killings, burials and retribution. Too late she realizes that Roseanna's obsession with sewing a traditional but gruesome coffin-decorated quilt is a sign of her evil attraction to deliberately stoking the fires of the feud--providing a psychological thriller ending for this dramatic tale of hillbilly love and revenge. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell - Amazon.com
Paperback from Gulliver Books

Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
by Edward L. Bond
Hardcover from Mercer University Press

Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900
by Altina L. Waller
Paperback from Univ of North Carolina Pr
1989

The Hatfields and the McCoys
by Otis K. Rice
Hardcover: 150 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 8.82 x 5.77
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; (July 1982)
ISBN: 0813114594

Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia) : Volume I, Minute Book Abstracts, 1788-1802
by Vicki Bidinger Horton
Listed under West Virginia Genealogy

Harpers Ferry Armory and New Technology
by Merritt Roe Smith
Paperback from Cornell Univ Pr
1980

History of the First Regiment West Virginia Infantry
by C. J. Rawling, Tim McKinney
Listed under Civil War West Virginia

History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia
by John Davison Sutton
Publisher: McClain Printing Company; 3rd edition

An Index of the Estate Records in the basement of the Hampshire County Court House from 1754 to 1870 with a partial index from 1870 through 1884
by William H. Rice
Listed under West Virginia Genealogy

In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson
by Clint Johnson
Paperback from John F Blair Pub

Mary Colter: Builder upon the Red Earth
by Virginia L. Grattan, Pam Frazier
Paperback from Grand Canyon Association

McDowell County, in West Virginia and American History
by Jean Battlo
Publisher: McClain Printing Company;

The Monongalia Story Volume One: Prelude
by Earl L. Core
Publisher: McClain Printing Company;

Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians
by William C. Roody
Listed under Mushrooms

Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Jefferson
Listed under Thomas Jefferson

Oakhurst: The Birth and Rebirth of America's First Golf Course
by Paula Diperna, Vikki Keller, Sam Snead
Listed under Golf Courses

Mercer County (Images of America: West Virginia)
by William R. Archer
Paperback from Arcadia

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Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia
by Gerald Milnes
Hardcover from University Press of Kentucky

Roadside Geology of Virginia (Roadside Geology Series)
by Keith Frye
Listed under Roadside Geology

The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)
by Ronald M. James
Paperback from Univ of Nevada Pr

Shooting the Bull: A Collection of Barbour County Folk Lore
by Kenny Dadisman
Publisher: McClain Printing Company;

The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History
by Ronald D. Eller, William Purviance, Jr. Tams
Paperback from West Virginia University Press

Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
by Lon Savage, John Alexander Williams
Paperback from Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt)
1990

Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites (Touring the Backroads Series)
by Clint Johnson
Listed under Travel West Virginia

Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities and Economic Change 1840-1940 (West Virginia and Appalachia, 1)
by Ken Fones-Wolf, et al
(Hardcover)

West Virginia: A History
by John Alexander Williams
Paperback from West Virginia University Press

West Virginia Glass Between the World Wars: Between the World Wars
by Dean Six
Hardcover from Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.

West Virginia: The Allegheny Highlands
by Jim Clark
Hardcover from Westcliffe Pub

West Virginia (America the Beautiful. Second Series)
by Wende Fazio
School & Library Binding from Children's Book Press

West Virginia's Coal & Coke Railroad: A B&O Predecessor
by Alan Clarke
Listed under American Railroads

West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers: Echoes from the Hills
by Fawn Valentine
Listed under Quilting

Wheeling in Vintage Postcards (Images of America: West Virginia)
by William A., Jr. Carney, Brent E. Carney
Paperback from Arcadia

Wood County (Images of America: West Virginia)
by Betty Leavengood
Paperback from Arcadia

The Rugged Southern Appalachia: Hatfield-McCoy Feud : Biographical and Historical
by Willard Mounts, Beatrice Brandhorst (Editor)
(Paperback)
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Coal Towns of West Virginia
by Stan Cohen, Mary Legg Stevenson
(Paperback)
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