Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Department of Archives and History written by West Virginia. Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1936/38 includes a bibliography of West Virginia in two parts; vol. for 1938/40 includes the Proceedings of the meeting called to organize a State Historical Society as the appendix.
Download or read book Biennial Report written by West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1910/14 includes the Eighth Annual report of the Ohio Valley Historical Association as the appendix.
Download or read book Handbook of West Virginia written by Lewis and published by . This book was released on with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States written by William A. Kretzschmar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Download or read book Trans Allegheny Pioneers written by John P. Hale and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is, without a doubt, one of the most celebrated accounts of life on the Virginia frontier ever written. However, it is more than that, for it is also the genealogical account of the Draper and Ingles families, who were later memorialized in the novels of Laura Ingles Wilder. Mr. Hale's concern, of course, is on "the progressive frontier explorations and settlements along the entire Virginia border, from the Alleghenies to the Ohio, and from the New River-Kanawha and tributaries in the Southwest, where settlements first began, to the Monogahela and tributaries, in the Northwest and along the Ohio, where the frontier line of settlements was last to be advanced. . . ." His focal point is the region of the New River-Kanawha in present-day Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia. Chronologically, the account picks up in the 1740s but truly hits its stride in 1755 with the Indian attack at Draper's Meadows, which resulted in the deaths of a number of settlers and the capture (and ultimate escape) of Mary Ingles and Bettie Draper. The author ably uses the device of the Indian raid and subsequent flight to tell us about life along the frontier and the names of the families who settled there. Other chapters are devoted to the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774 and biographical sketches of its participants. Point Pleasant, in fact, prefigured the conflicts that characterized the frontier theater of the American Revolution. Elsewhere Mr. Hale provides a detailed chronology of milestones along the Trans-Allegheny, Daniel Boone's years along the New River-Kanawha, and a sketch of the early history and progress of nearby Charleston, West Virginia. This is essential reading for anyone interested in frontier history or the genealogies of mid-18th century families who resided in the Valley of Virginia.
Download or read book West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report written by West Virginia. Dept. of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geology and Mineral Resources of Wise County and the Coal bearing Portion of Scott County Virginia written by Virginia Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia written by West Virginia. Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1910/14 includes the Eighth Annual report of the Ohio Valley Historical Association as the appendix.
Download or read book History of West Virginia Old and New written by James Morton Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Virginia. Division of Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geology and Mineral Resources of Wise County and the Coal bearing Portion of Scott County Virginia written by James Brian Eby and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semi centennial History of West Virginia written by James Morton Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Documents written by West Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library Subjects written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geological Series Bulletin written by Virginia. Division of Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
