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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One A Land Wild and Tremendous; Chapter Two Westward to the Alleghenies; Chapter Three Barbarous Circumstances; Chapter Four Across the Alleghenies; Chapter Five British at the Back Door; Chapter Six The Alienation of the Land; Chapter Seven Compromising with Nature; Chapter Eight Mountaineer Ways and Folkways; Chapter Nine Repairing Broken Constitutions; Chapter Ten The Midnight of Ignorance; Chapter Eleven A Glimmering of the Light; Chapter Twelve The Power of Spiritual Truths; Chapter Thirteen The First Flush of Seeming Wealth.
  • Chapter Fourteen Government of and for the PeopleChapter Fifteen An Enduring Past; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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