The Allegheny Frontier : West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 /

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The Allegheny frontier, comprising the mountainous area of present-day West Virginia and bordering states, is studied here in a broad context of frontier history and national development. The region was significant in the great American westward movement, but Otis K. Rice seeks also to call attentio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rice, Otis K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Frontier and pioneer life > Allegheny Mountains.
West Virginia.
United States > Allegheny Mountains.
Virginie-Occidentale > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1950.
West Virginia > History > To 1950.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Allegheny frontier, comprising the mountainous area of present-day West Virginia and bordering states, is studied here in a broad context of frontier history and national development. The region was significant in the great American westward movement, but Otis K. Rice seeks also to call attention to the impact of the frontier experience upon the later history of the Allegheny Highlands. He sees a relationship between its prolonged frontier experience and the problems of Appalachia in the twentieth century. Through an intensive study of the social, economic, and political developments in pio.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (468 pages).
ISBN:9780813164380

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