The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154473)

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
ISBN-10: 0813154472
ISBN-13: 9780813154473
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 468
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.05d