PART ONE

A HIDDEN LAND

Early White Exploration

Alvord, Clarence Walworth and Lee Bidgood. The First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region by the Virginians, 1650-1674. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1912.

Jillson, Willard R. The Big Sandy Valley: A Regional History Prior to the Year 1850. Louisville: John P. Morton & Co., 1923.

Rice, Otis K. The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1970.


Native Americans

Alford, Thomas W. Civilization. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936

Clark, Jerry E. The Shawnee. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993.

Down, Randolph C., Council Fires on the Upper Ohio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977

Eckert, Allan W. A Sorrow in our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh. New York: Bantum Books, 1992.

Galloway, William A. Old Chillicothe: Shawnee and Pioneer History. Xenia: Buckeye Press, 1934.

Gilbert, Bill. God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Revolution. New York: Athenaeum Press, 1989.


British Claims - French Claims

Bowman, Forest J. "A Trouble-Some and Difficult Affair: Surveying the Fairfax Line," West Virginia History 33 (April 1972): 248-261.

Castle, R. Woodrow. "Batts and Fallam and the Kanawha," West Virginia History 3 (July 1942): 275-284.

Jones, Mary Homes. "The Fairfax Stone," Wonderful West Virginia 39 (January 1976): 18-19.

Brown, Leona G. "George Washington in West Virginia," West Virginia History 20 (October 1958): 36-44.

Tomkies, Morgan. "Celoron's Plaque at Point Pleasant," West Virginia History 27 (April 1966): 220-233.



A DEADLY PANIC

French and Indian War, 1754-1763

Alden, John R. Robert Dinwiddie, Servant of the Crown. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973.

Ambler, Charles H. George Washington and the West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1936.

Bailey, Kenneth P. The Ohio Company of Virginia and the Western Movement. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1939.

Baker-Crothers, Hayes. Virginia and the French and Indian War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928.

Darlington, William M., ed. Christopher Gist's Journals. New York: Argonaut Press, 1966.

Hamilton, Charles, ed. Braddock's Defeat. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.

Hindman, William Blake. "The Great Meadows Campaign and the Climaxing Battle at Fort Necessity," West Virginia History 16 (October 1954): 65-89.

Johnson, Patricia G. General Andrew Lewis of Roanoke and Greenbrier. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959.

Rice, Otis. "The French and Indian War in West Virginia," West Virginia History 24 (January 1963): 134-146.

Rice, Otis. "The Sandy Creek Expedition of 1756," West Virginia History 13 (October 1951): 5-19.

Stuart, John. Memoir of Indian Wars, and Other Occurrences. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1971.

Withers, Alexander Scott. Chronicles of Border Warfare. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1961.


Mary Ingles and Indian Captivity

Caudill, Harry. The Saga of Jenny Wiley. Ashland: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994. (A fictional account of Jenny Wiley's captivity and escape from Shawnee and Cherokee Indians.)

Thom, James Alexander. Follow the River. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. (A fictional account of Mary Ingles capture and escape from the Shawnee Indians.)

VanDerBeets, Richard. Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.



EQUAL CRUELTIES

Lord Dunmore's War

Brand, Irene. "Lord Dunmore's War," West Virginia History 40 (Fall 1978): 28-46.

Curry, Richard O. "Lord Dunmore and the West: A Re-Evaluation," West Virginia History 19 (July 1958): 231-243.

Curry, Richard O. "Lord Dunmore - Tool of Land Jobbers or Realistic Champion of Colonial Rights: An Inquiry," West Virginia History 24 (April 1963): 289-295.

Downes, Randolph. Council Fires on the Upper Ohio: A Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley to 1795. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940.

Downes, Randolph. "Dunmore's War: An Interpretation," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 21 (December 1934): 311-319.

Hansforth, John. "Who Mourns for Logan," Wonderful West Virginia 33 (April 1970): 7-10.

Hoyt, William D. "Colonel William Fleming in Dunmore's War," West Virginia History 3 (January 1942): 99-119.

Jacob, John J. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Captain Michael Cresap. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1971.

Kirby, Robert L. "The Other War in 1774," West Virginia History 36 (October 1974): 1-16.

Stuart, John. Memoirs of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1971.

Thwaites, Reuben G., and Phelps Kellogg, eds. Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774. Harrisonburg: C. J. Carrier Co., 1974.


The Battle of Point Pleasant

Burton, Patricia. "Colorful Lineage of Americans who Fought at the Battle of Pt. Pleasant," Wonderful West Virginia 42 (January 1979): 10-15; 38 (Febuary 1979): 27-30.

Lambert, Harold. "Cornstalk - King of the Rhododendron Country," West Virginia History 19 (April 1958): 194-203.

Lethbridge, Alice. "Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was the First Battle of the Revolution," West Virginia History 44 (Febuary 1981): 6-7; 32).

Lewis, Virgil. History of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Harrisonburg: C.J. Carrier Co., 1974.

McDonald, Kenneth R. "The Battle of Point Pleasant: First Battle of the American Revolution," Wonderful West Virginia 36 (October 1974): 40-49.

Murphy, Tom. "Battle at the Point," Wonderful West Virginia 38 (July 1974): 12-15.

Poffenbarger, Livia N. The Battle of Point Pleasant: A Battle of the Revolution. Point Pleasant: The State Gazette, 1909.

Swope, Kenneth D. The Battle of Point Pleasant of Lord Dunmore's War. Lewisburg: Greenbrier Historical Society, 1974.


The American Revolution

Abernathy, Thomas. Western Lands and the American Revolution. New York: Russell and Russell, 1964.

Carlisle, Robert C. "Fort Gaddis and the Construction of a Revolutionary War Fort at Beech Bottom, West Virginia," West Virginia History 39 (July 1978): 324-340.

Cochran, Darrell. "Many Mountaineers Remained Loyal to the British Crown," Wonderful West Virginia 44 (June 1980): 22.

Curry, Richard O. "Loyalism in Western Virginia during the American Revolution," West Virginia History , 14 (April 1953): 265-274.

Doddridge, Joseph. Notes, on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania.... Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1960.

Harkey, Joseph H. "Captain William Morgan's Berkeley, Virginia, Militia Company," West Virginia History 38 (October 1976); 35-55.

Lockhart, Virginia E. Kidd. "Some Problems of the Draft in Revolutionary Virginia," West Virginia History 37 (July 1966): 251-277.

Morris, Robert L. "Military Contributions of Western Virginia in the American Revolution," West Virginia History 23 (January 1962): 86-99.

Nelson, Paul D. "Lee, Gates, Stephen, and Morgan: Revolutionary War Generals of the Lower Shenandoah Valley," West Virginia History 37 (April 1976): 185-200.

Thwaites, Reuben G. The Revolution on the Upper Ohio. Port Washington: Kennicat Press, 1970.


Betty Zane and the Siege of Fort Henry

Brooks, A. B. "The Story of Fort Henry," West Virginia History 1 (January 1940): 110-118.

Farley, G. M. "Heroine of Ft. Henry," West Virginia Illustrated 2 (October-November, 1965): 42-44.

Grey, Zane. Betty Zane. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1903. (Fictional biography of Betty Zane, including her heroic dash for gunpowder during the defense of Fort Henry.)

Massey, Glen. F. "Fort Henry in the American Revolution," 24 West Virginia History 24 (April 1963): 248-257.

Norona, Delf. "A Forgotten Account of the Siege of Fort Henry," West Virginia History 8 (April 1947): 305-315.



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