Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology. 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 County mine war the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social