Historic Photos of West Virginia

<p>West Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions shared tragedies and shared histories bind its people to the land and each other with a strong sense of place family and home.</p><p>In striking black-and-white photos culled from state and national archives accompanied by text from an award-winning writer <em>Historic Photos of West Virginia</em> captures the history of this remarkable state. Even readers unfamiliar with its history will find a compelling drama in its tumultuous birth in the Civil War its growth as a center for extraction industries and manufacturing its role as a new homeland for immigrants and its history as the birthplace of Mother's Day and of heroes like Charles Chuck Yeager. The triumphs of natives like Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck and tragedies like the Monongah mine disaster-all are depicted here as part of the complex compelling story of the Mountain State and its people.</p>