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Prominent Men of West Virginia (Wheeling, WV: W. L. Callin, 1890), by Geo. W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Two Virginias; genesis of old and new, "a romance of American history." State sovereignty, phantom of a stupendous folly. (Press of the Mayer & Miller Co.], 1915), by Granville Davisson Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of West Virginia (Prentice-Hall, inc., 1933), by Charles Henry Ambler (page images at HathiTrust)
History and government of West Virginia. (Werner school book company, 1896), by Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
The history and government of West Virginia (The Acme publishing company, 1901), by Richard Ellsworth Fast and Hu Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The disruption of Virginia (The Macmillan Company, 1922), by James Clyde McGregor (page images at HathiTrust)
West Virginia, the Mountain State (Prentice-Hall, 1958), by Charles Henry Ambler and Festus P. Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
Semi-centennial history of West Virginia (W. Va.] Semi-centennial commission of West Virginia, 1913), by James Morton Callahan and West Virginia. Semi-centennial commission (page images at HathiTrust)
The annals of Fort Lee (West Virginia review press, 1935), by Roy Bird Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
The border settlers of northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795 (The republican publishing company, 1915), by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, J. P. MacLean, and William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
The rending of Virginia, a history. (Mayer & Miller], 1902), by Granville Davisson Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
History and government of West Virginia (American Book Company, 1912), by Virgil Anson Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
Chronicles of border warfare (McClain Printing Co., 1975), by Alexander Scott Withers, Lyman Copeland Draper, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Chronicles of border warfare : or, a history of the settlement by the whites, of northwestern Virginia, and of the Indian wars and massacres, in that section of the state (Stewart & Kidd Company, 1920), by Alexander Scott Withers, Lyman Copeland Draper, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the early settlement and Indian wars of Western Virginia : embracing an account of the various expeditions in the West, previous to 1795 ; also, biographical sketches (H. Hoblitzell, 1851), by Wills De Hass (page images at HathiTrust)
Semi-centennial history of West Virginia (Semi-Centennial Commission of West Virginia, 1913), by James Morton Callahan and West Virginia. Semi-Centennial Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Trans-Allegheny pioneers : historical sketches of the first white settlements west of the Alleghenies, 1748 and after, wonderful experiences of hardships and heroism of those who first braved the dangers of the inhospitable wilderness, and the savage tribes that then inhabited it (The Graphic Press, 1886), by John P. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
History of West Virginia : in two parts (Hubbard Brothers, 1889), by Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
Myers' history of West Virginia. (Wheeling news lithograph company, 1915), by S. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory (Standard Ptg. & Pub. Co., 1906), by David E. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
Brief sketch of the erection and formation of the state of West Virginia from the territory of Virginia (Butler printing company], 1891), by John Marshall Hagans (page images at HathiTrust)
An inside view of the formation of the state of West Virginia. (The News Pub. Co., 1901), by William P. Willey (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of Barbour County, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time (McClain Print. Co., 1968), by Hu Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History and government of West Virginia (New York : American Book Co., 1904), by Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
The history and government of West Virginia (The Acme publishing company, 1906), by Richard Ellsworth Fast and Hu Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time ... (W. Va., pref., 1907), by William Bernard Cutright, Earle Amos Brooks, and Hu Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Progressive West Virginians. (Wheeling News, 1905), by Robert E Murphy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
West Virginia and its people (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913), by Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Semi-centennial history of West Virginia (Semi-centennial commission of West Virginia, 1913), by James Morton Callahan and West Virginia. Semi-centennial commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
View of the title to Indiana a tract of country on the River Ohio, containing Indian conferences at Johnson-Hall in May, 1765; the deed of the Six Nations to the proprietors of Indiana; the minutes of the congress at Fort Stanwix, in October and November, 1768; the deed of the Indians, settling the boundary line between the English and Indian lands; and the opinion of counsel on the title of the proprietors of Indiana. (s.n., 1775), by Samuel Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
The formation of the state of West Virginia, and other incidents of the late civil war (Glass & Son, 1875), by Granville Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Prominent men of West Virginia: biographical sketches, the growth and advancement of the state, a compendium of returns of every election, a record of every state officer (W. L. Callin, 1890), by George Wesley Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and times of Anne Bailey, the pioneer heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley (The Butler printing company, 1891), by Virgil A. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
The original Indiana Territory. It was in West Virginia. The eleventh amendment to the federal Constitution. (Press of Butler printing co., 1895), by Virgil A. Lewis and Charleston West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Braxton County and central West Virginia (Sutton, W. Va., 1919), by John Davison Sutton (page images at HathiTrust)
West Virginia, the mountain state. (Prentice-Hall, 1947), by Charles Henry Ambler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Camps and firesides west of the Alleghenies (West Virginia Pub. Co., 1941) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
West Virginia; a brief history of the mountain state (West Virginia Publishing co., 1940), by Philip Mallory Conley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Trans-Allegheny pioneers (Kanawha Valley Publshing Co., 1931), by John P. Hale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Beacon lights of West Virginia history (West Virginia publishing company, 1939), by Philip Mallory Conley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of West Virginia, old and new (American Historical Society, 1923), by James Morton Callahan (page images at HathiTrust)
West Virginia, in history, life, literature and industry (The Lewis publishing company, 1928), by Morris Purdy Shawkey (page images at HathiTrust)
In re West Virginia's demand upon the treasurer of the United States : for the payment of the amount due under the recent act of Congress for refunding the direct war tax of 1861. (s.n., 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the settlement by the whites, of northwestern Virginia, and of the Indian wars and massacres, in that section of the state (Stewart & Kidd Company, 1920), by Alexander Scott Withers, William Hacker, William Powers, Reuben Gold Thwaites, Lyman Copeland Draper, and Stewart and Kidd Company (page images at HathiTrust)
West Virginia rural community histories (Agricultural extension division [etc., etc.], 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: West Virginia -- History -- 1861-1865

A banner in the hills; West Virginia's statehood. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1963), by George Ellis Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

"The Spirit of 1861": History of the Sixth Indiana Regiment in the Three Months' Campaign in Western Virginia (Madison, IN: Courier Print, 1875), by Andrew J. Grayson (multiple formats at Indiana)
Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865. With an introductory chapter on the status of Virginia for thirty years prior to the war. (Deutsch publishing co., 1895), by Theodore F. Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the organization and campaigns of the Army of the Potomac: to which is added an account of the campaign in western Virginia, with plans of battle-fields. (Sheldon & Company, 1864), by George B. McClellan and United States. Army of the Potomac (page images at HathiTrust)
Ohio militia and the West Virginia campaign, 1861. Address of General Carrington, to Army of West Virginia, at Marietta, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1870. (R. H. Blodgett & co., printers, 1904), by Henry Beebee Carrington (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the organization and campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; to which is added an account of the campaign in western Virginia, with plans of battle-fields. (Sheldon & company, 1864), by George Brinton McClellan (page images at HathiTrust)
Lee's invasion of northwest Virginia in 1861 (Press of the Mayer & Miller Co.], 1911), by Granville Davisson Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the operations of Maj.-Gen. Frémont, while in command of the Mountain Department, during the spring and summer of 1862. (Baker & Godwin, printers, 1866), by John Charles Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
The battle of Rich Mountain and some incidents : (The Commandery?, 1911), by Joseph Warren Keifer (page images at HathiTrust)
The formation of the state of West Virginia, and other incidents of the late civil war (Glass & Son, 1875), by Granville Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
How West Virginia was made. Proceedings of the first Convention of the people of northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, May 13, 14 and 15, 1861, and the journal of the second Convention of the people of northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, which assembled, June 11th 1861 ... (News-Mail Co., Public Printer], 1909), by Virgil Anson Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
General order ([Charleston, W. Va.] : [publisher not identified], [1862], 1862), by Confederate States of America. Army. Department of Western Virginia, H. Fitzhugh, and William Wing Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
To the people of western Virginia. ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1900], 1900), by Confederate States of America. Army. Department of Western Virginia, H. Fitzhugh, and William Wing Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
How West Virginia was made. Proceedings of the first Convention of the people of northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, May 13, 14 and 15, 1861, and the journal of the second Convention of the people of northwestern Virginia at Wheeling, which assembled, June 11th 1861 ... (News-Mail Co., Public Printer], 1909), by Virgil Anson Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

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