WV Resource Guide: Part 3

PART THREE

MOUNTAINEERS

African-Americans in West Virginia

Bailey, Kenneth R. "A Judicious Mixture: Negroes and Immigrants in the West Virginia Mines, 1880-1917. West Virginia History 34 (January 1973): 141-161.

Brown, Mary Virginia. "A History of the Negroes of Monongalia County, from the Pioneer Days to the Close of the Nineteenth Century," Thesis, West Virginia University, 1930.

Easton, Charles Edward. "Negro Contributions to the Political and Legal History of the Southern Counties of West Virginia," Thesis, Marshall University, 1964.

Gates, Henry Louis. Colored People: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Gerofsky, Milton. "Reconstruction in West Virginia," West Virginia History 6 (July 1945): 295-360; 7 (October 1945): 5-39.

Posey, Thomas Edward. The Negro Citizen of West Virginia. Institute: Press of West Virginia State College, 1934.

Sheeler, John Reuben. "The Negro in West Virginia Before 1900," Thesis, West Virginia University, 1954.

Stealey, John Edmund, III. "The Freedmen's Bureau in West Virginia," West Virginia History 39 (January/April 1978): 99-142.

Trotter, Joe William, Jr. Coal, Class and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Trotter, Joe William, Jr., and Ancella Bickley, editors. Honoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History. Charleston: Alliance for the Collection, Preservation and Dissemination of West Virginia's Black History, 1991. (Some articles are scholarly, some are more informal reminiscences or personal anecdotes, but all describe the Black experience in the context of West Virginia culture.)

Woodson, Carter G. Early Negro Education in West Virginia. Institute: West Virginia Collegiate Institute, 1921.

A SHOW OF WEALTH

Johnson Newlon Camden

Summers, Festus P. Johnson Newlon Camden: A Study in Individualism. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937.

Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1976.

Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823-1916

Pepper, Charles Melville. The Life and Times of Henry Gassaway Davis, 1823-1916. New York: The Century Co., 1920.

Williams, John Alexander. "Davis and Elkins of West Virginia: Businessmen in Politics.," Thesis, Yale University, 1967.

Williams, John Alexander. "The Final Confrontation of Henry G. Davis and William L. Wilson in the Election Campaign of 1894," West Virginia History 32 (October 1970): 1-9.

Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1976.

Stephen B. Elkins

Lambert, Oscar Doane. Stephen Benton Elkins. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1955.

Marquess, E. Lawrence. "The Political Career of Stephen B. Elkins, Businessman in Politics," Thesis, University of Indiana, 1951.

Williams, John Alexander. "New York's First Senator from West Virginia: How Stephen B. Elkins Found a New Political Home," West Virginia History 31 (January 1970): 73-87.

Williams, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1976.

$300 AND A HORSE

Collis Potter Huntington

Evans, Cerinda W. Collis Potter Huntington. 2 vols. Newport News: Mariners' Museum, 1954.

Lavendar, David Seivert. The Great Persuader. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970.

Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins And Crocker and The Building of The Central Pacific. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1938.

Railroads

Ball, Frank. "The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from the Civil War to Willard," West Virginia Review 15 (August 1938): 342-345.

Ball, Frank. "The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Under Willard's Administration," West Virginia Review 15 (September 1938): 363-366, 381.

Bias, Charles Vernon. "A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and its Predecessors, 1784-1977," Thesis, West Virginia University, 1979.

Dorin, Patrick C. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, George Washington's Railroad. Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1981. (Examines the history, services, accommodations and problems of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.)

Huddleston, Eugene L. Riding that New River Train: The Story of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Through The New River Gorge of West Virginia. Alderson: Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society, 1989.

Hungerford, Edward. The Story of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1827-1927. 2 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

Lambie, Joseph T. From Mine to Market: A History of Coal Transportation on the Norfolk & Western Railway. New York: New York University Press, 1954.

Stover, John F. History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1987.

Turner, Charles Wilson. Chessie's Road. 2nd edition. Alderson: Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society, 1986.

John Henry

Bowman, James C. John Henry, The Rambling Black Ulysses. Chicago: A. Whitman & Co., 1942.

Bradford, Roark. John Henry. New York: Literary Guild, 1931.

Chappell, Louis W. John Henry: A Folk-Lore Study. Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1968.

Dorson, Richard M. "The Career of `John Henry'," Western Folklore 24 (July 1965): 155-163.

Felton, Harold W. John Henry and His Hammer. New York: Knopf, 1950. (Words and music to the ballad are appended.)

Johnson, Guy Benton. John Henry: Tracking Down a Negro Legend. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929.

Keats, Ezra Jack. John Henry, An American Legend. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.

Killens, John Oliver. A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man; The Adventures of John Henry. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

Shapiro, Irvin. John Henry and the Double Jointed Steamdrill. New York: J. Messner, 1956.

Stein, Conrad. Steel Driving Man; The Legend of John Henry. Chicago: Children's Press, 1969.

Williams, Brett. John Henry, A Bio-Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Rivers, Canals and Turnpikes

Ambler, Charles H. A History of Transportation in the Ohio Valley. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1932.

Ball, Frank. "The James River and Kanawha Canal," West Virginia Review 12 (December 1935): 280-281.

Ball, Frank. "The Old Northwestern Turnpike," West Virginia Review 13 (December 1935): 74-75, 94.

Banta, Richard E. The Ohio. New York: Rinehart, 1949.

Bissell, Richard P. The Monongahela. New York: Rinehart, 1952.

Braake, Alex L. "Postal History of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike," West Virginia History 33 (October 1971): 27-54.

Braun, Duane. The Potomac River Basin; A Bibliography of Reference Materials. Bethesda: Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, 1974.

Carnes, Eva M. "The Beverly-Fairmont Pike Then and Now, 1850-1950," West Virginia History 12 (January 1951): 155-164.

Cook, Roy Bird. "Origin of Names of West Virginia Rivers," West Virginia Blue Book 21 (1937): 697-702.

Curtis, Hal. "West Virginia's Historic Midland Trail," West Virginia Review , 10 (November 1932): 48-50, 65-66.

Davis, Julia. The Shenandoah. New York: Rinehart, 1945.

"The First Steamboat on the Ohio," Southern Historical Magazine 1 (January 1892): 14-17.

Gamble, J. M. "Steamboats in West Virginia," West Virginia History 15 (January 1954): 124-138.

Graham, Frank. Potomac: The Nation's River. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1976.

Gutheim, Frederick A. The Potomac. New York: Rinehart, 1949.

Hadley, Harry E. "The James River and Kanawha Canal," West Virginia History 25 (January 1964): 92-101.

Hadley, Harry E. "A Middle Way to the West," Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society (1971): 11-25.

Hyde, Arnout. The Potomac: A Nation's River. Charleston: Cannon Graphics, 1994.

Jewell, Caroline. "The Ohio River: Its West Virginia Boundary," West Virginia Review 19 (August 1942): 200, 210, 223.

Kirby, David. "Canalization of New River," West Virginia History 15 (April 1954): 269-291.

Klein, Benjamin F., ed. The Ohio River Handbook and Picture Album. [rev. ed.] Cincinnati: Young and Klein, 1969, 1979.

Matheny, John. "The Early Years on the Ohio," West Virginia Review 13 (June 1936): 262-263, 288.

O'Neal, Lucy. "The Beverly and Fairmont Turnpike," Davis and Elkins Historical Magazine 2 (May 1949): 8-11.

Sanderlin, Walter S. The Great National Project: A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1946.

THE FEUD

The Hatfield-McCoy Feud

Fiction:

Hannum, Alberta. Roseanna McCoy. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974.

Kroll, Harry Harrison. Their Ancient Grudge. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946.

Spivak, John L. The Devil's Brigade: The Story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud. New York: Brewer and Warren, Inc., 1930.

Ware, Clyde. Hatfields and McCoys: A Screenplay. Charleston: MHC Publications, 1975.

Non-Fiction:

Crawford, Theron C. An American Vendetta. New York: Belford Clarke and Co., 1888.

Donnelly, Clarence Shirley. The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Reader. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1972.

Hatfield, G. Elliott. The Hatfields. Stanville: Big Sandy Valley Historical Society, 1974.

Hatfield, Lawrence D. The True Story of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud. L. D. Hatfield: n.p., 1945.

Jones, Virgil Carrington. The Hatfields and McCoys. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.

Ragland, Henry Clay. History of Logan County Taken From the Logan County Banner Files of 1896. 1980. 118-page typescript.

Rice, Otis K. The Hatfields and McCoys. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1978.

Spence, Robert Y. The Land of the Guyandot: A History of Logan County. Detroit: Harlo, 1976.

Swain, George T. The True Facts about the Famous Hatfield-McCoy Feud. Charleston: Ace Enterprises, 1962.

Waller, Altina L. Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change In Appalachia, 1860-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Woods, Roy C. "History of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud with Special Attention to the Effects of Education on It," West Virginia History 22 (October 1960): 27-33.

PANORAMA OF DESTRUCTION

Oil, Chemical, Iron and Steel

Conley, Phil. M "The Chemical Industry in West Virginia," West Virginia Blue Book 19 (1935): 711-715.

Craigo, L. R. "The Romance of the Cut Nail Industry," West Virginia Review 11 (August 1934): 316-318, 338.

Crawford, E. T., Jr. "Salt -- Pioneer Chemical Industry of the Kanawha Valley," West Virginia Review 13 (March 1936): 175-178, 190; 13 (April 1936): 208-211, 224; 13 (May 1936): 247-250, 256.

Eavenson, Howard N. The First Century and A Quarter of American Coal Industry. Pittsburgh: Privately printed, 1942.

Eby, Joseph J. "Iron and Steel Industry in West Virginia," West Virginia Review 24 (July 1947): 7-11.

Eby, Joseph J. "The Salt Industry in West Virginia," West Virginia Review 24 (June 1947): 18-20, 35.

Forbes, Gerald. "The Civil War and the Beginning of the Oil Industry in West Virginia," West Virginia History 8 (July 1947): 382-391.

Goodall, Elizabeth J. "The Manufacture of Salt - Kanawha's First Commercial Enterprise," West Virginia History 26 (July 1965): 234-250.

Hanlin, F. A. "Weirton Steel Company - The Mushroom of the Steel Industry," West Virginia History 3 (June 1926): 346-347.

Hauer, Peter. "Salt Petre Mining in West Virginia," Goldenseal 1 (July-September 1975): 36-40.

Jefferson, Josephine. Wheeling Glass. Mount Vernon: Guide Publishing Co., 1947.

Jones, James G. "The Early History of the Natural Gas Industry in West Virginia," West Virginia History 10 (January 1949): 79-92.

McCormick, Kyle. "The Story of Iron Mining in West Virginia," West Virginia History 21 (May 1926): 256, 275-277.

Matheny, J. W. "The Early Iron Industry In West Virginia," West Virginia Review 3 (May 1926): 256, 275-277.

Moreland, James R. "The Early Iron Industry in the Cheat Mountains," West Virginia Review 14 (October 1936): 16-19. and in West Virginia History 8 (October 1946): 105-118.

Reed, Louis. "First Oil Lease South of the Mason and Dixon Line," West Virginia History 25 (January 1964): 150-155.

Rice, Otis K.. "Coal Mining in the Kanawha Valley to 1861: A View of Industrialization in the Old South," Journal of Southern History 31 (November 1965): 393-416.

Smith, Phillip R. Jr. "The Hall Rifle Works," West Virginia History 23 (April 1962): 219-223.

Stealey, John Edmund III. The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1993.

Williams, Lou. "Beginning of a Great Industry," West Virginia Review 17 (February-March 1940): 142-143, 156.

Lumbering and Logging

Brown, d. D.. "Lumbering in Randolph County," Randolph County Historical Society Magazine of History and Biography 11 (1954): 82-90.

Clarkson, Roy B. Tumult on the Mountains; Lumbering in West Virginia, 1770-1920. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1964.

Cubby, Edwin A. . "Timbering Operations in the Tug and Guyandot Valleys in the 1890's," West Virginia History 26 (January 1965): 110-120.

Deike, George H. Logging South Cheat: The History of the Snowshoe Resort Lands. Youngstown: Trebco, 1978.

Dodge, Jacob R. West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-wells. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1895.

Jackson, Henry F. "Lumbering on Coal River," Thesis, West Virginia University, 1937

Nuttall, John. Trees Above With Coal Below. San Diego: Neyenesch Printers, 1961. (Autobiographical account of life in the lumbering and coal mining regions of Fayette County.)

Thompson, George B. A History of the Lumber Business at Davis, West Virginia, 1885-1924. Parsons: McClain Printing Co., 1974.

KING COAL

Coal Mines and Mining

Barb, John M.. "Strikes in the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, 1912-1922," Thesis, West Virginia University, 1949.

Cohen, Stan. King Coal: A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining. Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1984.

Corbin, David. Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Hadsell, Richard M. and William E. Coffey.. "From Law and Order to Class Welfare: Baldwin-Felts Detectives in the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields," West Virginia History 40 (Spring 1979): 268-286.

Lynch, Lawrence R.. "The West Virginia Coal Strike," Political Science Quarterly 29 (1914): 626-663.

Mooney, Fred, 1888-1952. Struggle in the Coal Fields; The Autobiography of Fred Mooney. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1967.

Munn, Robert. "The Development of Model Towns in the Bituminous Coal Fields," West Virginia History 40 (Spring 1979): 243-253.

Tams, W. P. The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1963.

Thomas, Jerry B. "Coal Country: The Rise of the Southern Smokeless Coal Industry and Its Effect on Area Development, 1872-1910," Thesis, University of North Carolina, 1971.

Toothman, Fred R. Great Coal Leaders of West Virginia. Huntington: Vandalia Book Co., 1988.

Accidents

Greer, Guy E. "A Study of Mine Explosions in West Virginia., Thesis, West Virginia University, 1916

Haas, Frank. The Explosion at Monongah Mines, Fairmont Coal Company. Fairmont: Free Press Printing Co., 1908. (Fairmont Coal Co. Bulletin no. 11)

"The Monongah Catastrophe," Illustrated Monthly West Virginian. (January 1908): 13-15, 87.

Monongah Mines Relief Committee. History of the Monongah Mines Relief Fund in Aid of Sufferers from the Monongah Mine Explosion, Monongah, West Virginia, December 6, 1907. Fairmont: n.p., 1910.

PAINT CREEK

Bailey, Kenneth R. "`Grim Visaged Men' and the West Virginia National Guard in the 1912-13 Paint and Cabin Creek Strike," West Virginia History 41 (Winter 1980): 111-125.

Corbin, David A. "The Socialist and Labor Star: Strike and Suppression in West Virginia, 1912-1913," West Virginia History 34 (January 1973): 168-186.

Crawford, Charles Bierne. "The Mine War on Cabin Creek and Paint Creek, West Virginia in 1912-1913," Thesis, University of Kentucky, 1934.

Gartin, Edwin V. "West Virginia Mine War of 1912-1913: The Progressive Response," North Dakota Quarterly 41 (Autumn 1973): 12-27.

The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars: Articles Reprinted from the Goldenseal Magazine 1977-1991. Charleston: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1991.

Sprague, Stuart S. . "Unionization Struggles on Paint and Cabin Creeks, 1912-1913," West Virginia History 38 (April 1977): 185-213.

U. S. Congress. Senate Committee on Education and Labor. Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-Third Congress, First Session. 3 vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1913.

West Virginia. Attorney General's Office. Conditions in the Paint Creek District of West Virginia. Charleston: Tribune Print Co., [1913?].

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)

Atkinson, Linda. Mother Jones, the Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Crown Publishers, 1978.

Fetherling, Dale. Mother Jones, the Miner's Angel: a Portrait. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974.

Jones, Mary Harris. Autobiography of Mother Jones. Edited by Mary Field Parton. 3rd edition. Chicago: International Labor History Society, 1974.

Jones, Mary Harris. Correspondence of Mother Jones. Edited by Edward M. Steel. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.

Jones, Mary Harris. Thoughts of Mother Jones; Compiled from Her Writings and Speeches. Edited by Jim Axelrod. Huntington: Appalachian Movement Press, 1973.

Long, Priscilla. Mother Jones, Woman Organizer, and Her Relations with Miners' Wives, Working Women, and the Suffrage Movement. Cambridge: Red Sun Press, 1976.

Mikeal, Judith Elaine. "Mother Mary Jones: The Labor Movement's Impious Joan of Arc," Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1965.

Rappaport, Doreen. Trouble at the Mines. New York: Crowell, 1987. (Fictional account of Rosie and her family, who are caught up on the Arnot, Pennsylvania, mining strike of 1899-1900, led by the union organizer, Mother Jones.)

Scholten, Pat Creech. "The Old Mother and Her Army: The Agitative Strategies of Mary Harris Jones," West Virginia History 40 Spring 1979): 365-374.

Steel, Edward M. "Mother Jones in the Fairmont Field, 1902," Journal of American History 57 (September 1970): 270-305.

Werstein, Irving. Labor's Defiant Lady; The Story of Mother Jones. New York: Crowell, 1969.

Henry D. Hatfield

Penn, Neil Shaw. "Henry D. Hatfield and Reform Politics: A Study of West Virginia Politics, 1908-1917," Thesis, Emory University, 1973.

Karr, Carolyn. "A Political Biography of Henry D. Hatfield," Thesis, Marshall University, 1963.

Karr, Carolyn. "A Political Biography of Henry D. Hatfield," West Virginia History 28 (October 1966): 35-63; 28(January 1967): 137-170.

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