Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3258
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Bridge Across the Monongahela River Between Pittsburgh and Homestead, Pa. January 10, 1933. -- Referred to the House Calendar and Ordered to be Printed
Author: Base-flow Frequency Characteristics of Selected Pennsylvania Streams
Author: Kirk E. WhitePublisher:
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Category : Base flow (Hydrology)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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The Allegheny Frontier
Author: Otis K. RicePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813164389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
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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.
American Revolutionary Soldiers of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Author: Virginia Shannon FendrickPublisher: Southern Historical Press
ISBN: 9780893087524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"This volume was reproduced from an 1944 edition located in the publisher's private library."--Title page verso.
Youghiogheny, Appalachian River
Author: Tim PalmerPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971356
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Follows the course of the Youghiogheny river from its source in western Maryland to its confluence with the Monongahela near Pittsburgh
The Captives of Abb's Valley
Author: James MoorePublisher:
ISBN: 9781782820406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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A tragedy of Virginian colonial frontier In the summer of 1786 a large war party of Shawnee Indians entered Abb's Valley, Virginia, and descended on the household of militia officer Captain John Moore which included members of his immediate family together with hired labourers. The family occupied a substantial log building and were well armed, so Moore believed that his family was well placed to fight off a small Indian attack. The nearest homestead was six miles away and Moore, relying on his own abilities, thought it unnecessary to follow the example of neighbours by taking refuge in the nearest fort. The attack achieved complete surprise and Moore was killed before he could reach the safety of the house. What followed was an appalling, but typical, Indian massacre of the colonial period frontier in the 18th century. Various family members, young and old, were slaughtered on the spot, the property was set alight and a substantial herd of livestock was taken. Surviving members of the Moore family were taken as captives to the Indian townships, several of them being murdered on the journey. Once the survivors reached the Indian village there followed another period of torture which for Mrs. Moore and a teenage daughter proved fatal. Two young women survived their ordeals to eventually be ransomed. The story of this notable frontier tragedy was written by James Moore, a son of Mary Moore, who was one of the two ransomed captives. This a vital account of the struggles endured by the early settlers of the American wilderness and will be of essential interest to anyone interested in the early history of the state of Virginia. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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