Legendary Locals of McDowell County: West Virginia - Softcover

Archer, William R.

 
9781467100366: Legendary Locals of McDowell County: West Virginia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1467100366 ISBN 13: 9781467100366
Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2013

Inhaltsangabe

West Virginia's most impoverished county, McDowell County, is also its richest, with reserves of mineral wealth that continue to provide the framework for modern society from Panama and Toyko to New York and Chicago. With a history cratered by triumph and tragedy, the people of McDowell County have endured unspeakable hardships and near isolation but continue to excel in a myriad of unexpectedly surprising ways. Robert Morris, "the financier of the American Revolution," went to the poor house with the belief that McDowell's mineral wealth could fuel a new nation. Jedediah Hotchkiss, the mapmaker who charted the course for Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's valley campaign, resurrected Morris's dream to rebuild the South into an industrial giant on local coal. Men of vision and means like Frederick Kimball and J.P. Morgan built fortunes on McDowell County's mineral wealth. The musical Womack family, baseball manager Charlie Manuel, comedic genius Steve Harvey, writers Kermit Hunter and Jeannette Walls, and thousands who served in all ranks of the military, many making the supreme sacrifice, are among those who have made their mark on McDowell County.

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Local writer William R. "Bill" Archer worked with historians, archivists, and families to assemble the material and stories for Legendary Locals of McDowell County.

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Verlag
ARCADIA PUB (SC)
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1467100366
ISBN 13 
9781467100366
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
127
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