Books about West Virginia and Virginia
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John House's "Pioneers of Jackson County"
John House's "Pioneers of Roane County"
John House's "Some Early City, Village and Country Burying Grounds
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Chalkley's "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia"
"The Conquest of the Old Southwest:
Memoirs of Daniel W. Cunningham:
Histories of 58 West Virginia Communities
A History of The Middle New River Settlements
History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia,
Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days
The Settlement of Jamestown, by Captain John Smith
The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers
into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky"
The Criminal History of Roane and Jackson Counties, West Virginia
and Contiguous Territory, by David E. Johnston
and Representative Citizens, by Gibson Lamb Cranmer
on the James River & Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby
© 2006 Betty Briggs