The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830

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 twe

Author: Otis K. Rice
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 468
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d
ISBN13: 9780813154473
ISBN10: 0813154472
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | United States | 19th Century

About the Author

Otis K. Rice is professor of history and chairman of the department at West Virginia Institute of Technology.

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