" 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

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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia by Oren Morton Frederic, first published in 1916, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libr

A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia by Oren Frederic Morton, first published in 1910, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great l