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The Allegheny Frontier - West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 (Paperback)
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The Allegheny Frontier - West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 (Paperback)
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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 twentieth century.
Through an intensive study of the social, economic, and political
developments in pioneer West Virginia, Rice shows that during the
period 1730--1830 some of the most significant features of West
Virginia life and thought were established. There also appeared
evidences of arrested development, which contrasted sharply with
the expansiveness, ebullience, and optimism commonly associated
with the American frontier. In this period customs, manners, and
folkways associated with the conquest of the wilderness to root and
became characteristic of the mountainous region well into the
twentieth century. During this pioneer period, problems also took
root that continue to be associated with the region, such as
poverty, poor infrastructure, lack of economic development, and
problematic education. Since the West Virginia frontier played an
important role in the westward thrust of migration through the
Alleghenies, Rice also provides some account of the role of West
Virginia in the French and Indian War, eighteenth-century land
speculations, the Revolutionary War, and national events after the
establishment of the federal government in 1789.
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