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• Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History
• Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859

• The Natick Resolution: or, Resistance to Slaveholders the Right and Duty of Southern Slaves and Northern Freemen (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Henry Clarke Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Voice From Harper's Ferry: A Narrative of Events at Harper's Ferry, With Incidents Prior and Subsequent to its Capture by Captain Brown and His Men (Boston: Printed for the author, 1861), by Osborne P. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence Between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Virginia (Boston: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860), by Lydia Maria Child, contrib. by Henry A. Wise, Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph Mason, and John Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, With His Address to the Court (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860), by John Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Report [of] the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry, by United States Senate Select Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion (page images at MOA)
• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Anti-Slavery History of the John-Brown Year: Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society (with two distinct title pages; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society (multiple formats at Google)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Index to West Virginiana (Charleston, WV: Education Foundation, Inc., c1960), by Robert F. Munn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Broadsides (West Virginia Library Association publication #1; 1958), ed. by Delf Norona (multiple formats at archive.org)

• West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Broadsides (West Virginia Library Association publication #1; 1958), ed. by Delf Norona (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Prominent Men of West Virginia (Wheeling, WV: W. L. Callin, 1890), by Geo. W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Message from the Governor of Maryland, Transmitting the Reports of the Joint Commissioners, and of Lt. Col. Graham, U. S. Engineers, in Relation to the Intersection of the Boundary Lines of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, by Commission on Boundary Lines (page images at MOA)

• A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia, and, Before the Formation of the Diocese in 1878, in the Territory Now Known as the State of West Virginia (1902), by Geo. W. Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of West Virginia, by Episcopal Church Diocese of West Virginia (partial serial archives)
• Official Journal and Minutes of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Methodist Episcopal Church, West Virginia Conference (partial serial archives)

• The West Virginia Hand-Book and Immigrant's Guide (Parkersburg: Gibbens Bros., 1870), by J. H. Diss Debar
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Resources of West Virginia, by West Virginia State Board of Centennial Managers (page images at MOA)

• The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia (New York: Redfield, 1853), by Philip Pendleton Kennedy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia (New York: Redfield, 1853), by Philip Pendleton Kennedy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)

• Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, by David Hunter Strother (page images at MOA)

• Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia, with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791; or, Travels in the Interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the Valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., During the Summer of 1791 (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1950), by Ferdinand Bayard de La Vingtrie, ed. by Ben C. McCary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Resources of West Virginia, by West Virginia State Board of Centennial Managers (page images at MOA)

• The 1975 West Virginia Input-Output Study: Modeling a Regional Economy (c1979), by Anthony L. Loviscek, Randy E. Holliday, Lucinda A. Robinson, and Melissa A. Wolford (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Ring of Fire II (included on a Baen CD image; 2008), ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• 1634: The Baltic War (included on a Baen CD image; c2007), by Eric Flint and David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• 1634: The Ram Rebellion (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), by Eric Flint and Virginia Easley DeMarce
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• 1632, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Ring of Fire, ed. by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)

• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane (with illustrations by the author; New York: C. Francis Press, c1903), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Zane (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Zane Grey, illust. by Louis F. Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• The Record of the Shobe Family in America From 1737 to 1954 (ca. 1954), by Franklin D. Shobe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) From its Formation in 1738 to 1908 (Winchester, VA: Printed by the Eddy Press Corp., c1909), by T. K. Cartmell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prominent Men of West Virginia (Wheeling, WV: W. L. Callin, 1890), by Geo. W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Histories of 58 West Virginia Communities, ed. by WebRoots Inc. (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Public Addresses, etc., of Geo. W. Atkinson, Governor of West Virginia, During His Term of Office (Charleston, WV: Public printer, 1901), by Geo. W. Atkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)

• Constitutional Government Overthrown in West Virginia, by John W. Brown (PDF page images at MSU)

• Constitutional Government Overthrown in West Virginia, by John W. Brown (PDF page images at MSU)

• Ordinances of the Convention, Assembled at Wheeling, on the 11th of June, 1861 (Wheeling: Printed by authority of the Convention, 1861), by West Virginia Constitutional Convention (1861-1863) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Amended Constitution of West Virginia: Adopted by the Convention February 18, 1863 (with accompanying ordinances, and an inserted column on state debt from 1890), by West Virginia (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Amended Constitution of West Virginia: Adopted by the Convention February 18, 1863 (with accompanying ordinances, and an inserted column on state debt from 1890), by West Virginia (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia, and, Before the Formation of the Diocese in 1878, in the Territory Now Known as the State of West Virginia (1902), by Geo. W. Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reprint of Proceedings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of the State of West Virginia, From the Organization in 1865 Until and Including the Annual Communication in 1881 (Wheeling, WV: Printed by order of the Grand Lodge, 1882), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of West Virginia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harless Genealogy: John Philip and Anna Margaretha (Preiss) Harless, Pioneers in Western Virginia, and Some of Their Descendants (second edition, 1962), by Jacob Le Roy Pritchard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Southeastern Reporter (partial serial archives)

• West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains (Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press, c1945), by Hamill Kenny (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.