Civil War In Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Paperback - Tim McKinney

This is the story of a place, and a war. It makes sense that this area would be of utmost significance in the Civil War, as it sits on the spot whe...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. West Virginia, "Child of the Storm, " was the only state formed as a result of the Civil War. The struggle between eastern and western Virginia ove...

Reducere. The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley--Big, Little and Coal--were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal depos...

Reducere. With an introduction by Jean Lee Cole and a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner ...

Reducere. Originally publisher in 1948, this is the seminal text on nearly 250 species of sping wild flowers found in West Virginia. Common or English names ...

Reducere. The author turned his passion for his native county into a dissertation for his doctorate and then into this book. Although the county was not form...

Reducere. The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents ser...

The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. The authors chronicle these event...

Reducere. In the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atlantic Railro...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. T...

Reducere. Whether you'd like to visit historic sites; take scenic drives or walking tours; go hiking, biking, whitewater rafting, or fishing; or take in muse...

Reducere. The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, inv...

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 ...

DescriptionIn the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atla...

Reducere. If you are concerned about passing the West Virginia Real Estate Licensing Exam, then this book is for you. West Virginia Real Estate Exam Prep has...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen I reminisce on my childhood, what stands out the most are my memories in nature. I look back fondly on these simple moments, far fr...

Reducere. The "Civil War Soldiers of Bedford County Pennsylvania" book lists 4, 209 identified Civil War soldiers who lived in Bedford County or an immediate...

Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the ""long 1980s"". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment schol...

The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia, other than General Lee, is Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. He stands out among n...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andrea PinkneyEach of us has a silent thunder a quiet desire that rumbles from deep-down. For eleven-year-old Summer and he...

Reducere. Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries ...

Reducere. The Boys of Company K shows how life was for the common soldier on the dangerous western prairies. The men faced the threat of hostile Indians, dis...

Reducere. DescriptionWithin West Virginia's irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sed...

Their nickname was the Bloody First, given to them in recognition of their courageous conduct and supreme sacrifice in battle. In the midst of the ...

Reducere. The sixty-three fiction writers and poets within this anthology delve deep into the many senses of place that modern West Virginia, the core of App...

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

Reducere. Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through ...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. William Frazer, a descendant of the Scottish Highland Clan Fraser of Lovat, came to America in the 1720s, settling in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The...

This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors...

Reducere. Hillside Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West Virginia, from one of the first golf clubs in America at Oakhurst Links ...

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

Reducere. Began as a collective effort by members of the West Virginia Wildwater Association in 1965, Wildwater West Virginia emerged as the preeminent guide...

Reducere. (Note: The limited deluxe edition of Mapping Virginia has sold out.) As one of the chief gateways to the earliest exploration and settlement of the...

Reducere. The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic co...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen you read this Choose Your Own Adventure-type book, you'll get more than an adventure. More than 10 years later, I still remember mo...

Reducere. About the AuthorDavid A. Corbin served as a Senate staffer for twenty-six years--six years on the leadership staff of Senate majority leader Byrd a...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

Reducere. Awards🏆Second Place (2008) - IndieFab awards - (Regional Book)Contributor(s): Author: Rebecca J. BaileyMatewan Before the Massacre provides the fir...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Wellred edition featuring a new introduction providing the historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as Engels' 1891 introduction and art...

Reducere. Kerry was the scene of some of the bloodiest and most protracted fighting during the civil war. When Free State troops landed dramatically by sea, ...

Reducere. Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post-Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven m...

When the Civil War began in 1861 Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter, living on her family's plantation in...

Reducere. DescriptionDiana Loera heads south to bring readers an assortment of authentic West Virginia prize recipes. From Pepperoni Rolls to West Virginia P...

The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

'Ranks as a towering work of historical research and writing' - Nigel Jones, BBC History Magazine In the second volume of his acclaimed new history...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Alexander Williams"West Virginia: A History" is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state...

In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the Ame...