The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 - Paperback

by Otis K. Rice (Author)

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 Biography

Otis K. Rice is professor of history and chairman of the department at West Virginia Institute of Technology.