A good history by one of the state's leading historians, the book has been adopted for use as a textbook for junior high school students.

" An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan

Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's f

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 served in the co