It happened in West Virginia
Subtitle: remarkable events that shaped history
By: Rick Steelhammer
Edition: First edition.
Series: It happened in series
Publisher: GPP
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780762770540
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Anecdotes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages147-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: California dreaming - 1671; title: George Dashington soaked here - 1748; title: Getting the lead in - 1749; title: Bloodshed on the Ohio - 1774; title: Steamboat's first test run - 1787; title: Thomas Jefferson's lion - 1796; title: Conspiracy Island - 1805; title: Whitewater justice - 1812; title: World?s longest suspension bridge - 1849; title: John Brown's first casualty - 1859; title: Philippi Mom fires shot heard round the world - 1861; title: Statehood stickup - 1861; title: Robert E. Lee gets a ride - and an image - 1861; title: The golden bough - 1905; title: Explosion underground - 1907; title: Roughing it with the vagabonds - 1918, 1921; title: Blair Mountain bomb threat - 1921; title: Training airmen for Tuskegee - 1939; title: Nuclear dawn - 1943; title: Funnel vision - 1944; title: Red scare born in Wheeling - 1950; title: Down- home downhill - 1951; title: Relocating the US Government - 1952; title: Are we alone? - 1960; title: A place of warships - 1964; title: Silver Bridge collapse - 1967; title: Hare krishna, y'all! - 1968; title: Taking the plunge - 1979; title: Duchess of dunk - 1984; title: Historic heist - 1987; title: West Virginia facts and trivia.