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West Virginia Prominent Men2,779
The winning of the West1,736
Who's who on the Ohio River and its tributaries970
A winter in the West676
Voyages des Français sur les Grands Lacs et découverte de l'Ohio et du Mississippi (1614-1684) (in French)597
A diary : with reminiscences of the war and refugee life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865580
A pilgrimage in America : leading to the discovery of the sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River555
The Ohio company papers, 1753-1817 : being primarily papers of the "suffering traders" of Pennsylvania555
Pioneer history : being an account of the first examinations of the Ohio valley, and the early settlement of the Northwest Territory545
The far West, or, A tour beyond the mountains510
The border settlers of northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795508
South-west Virginia and the Valley : historical and biographical.500
The Big Sandy Valley500
History of the Girtys438
Red men of the Ohio Valley : an aboriginal history of the period commencing A.D. 1650, and ending at the treaty of Greenville,435
The romance of western history, or, Sketches of history, life, and manners in the West431
History of the early settlement and Indian wars of western Virginia412
Capon Valley. Its Pioneers and Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940, Vol. II407
Greenbrier pioneers and their homes401
Greenbrier, West Virginia Pioneers and Their Homes378
The Shenandoah375
Pioneer mothers of the West, or, Daring and heroic deeds of American women363
George Croghan and the westward movement, 1741-1782357
A history of the valley of Virginia344
The Indiana Company, 1763-1798 : a study in eighteenth century frontier land speculation and business venture334
Pioneers and Their Homes On Upper Kanawha, West Virginia329
The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia313
Sketches of western adventure310
The Ohio Valley in colonial days297
Memory days in which the Shenandoah Valley is seen in retrospection284
Roane County, West Virginia Families276
Capon Valley. Its Pioneers and Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940, Vol. I274
The plight of the bituminous coal miner271
Proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association268
History of the Galley family : with local and old-time sketches in the Yough region261
Genealogies of West Virginia Families259
Machine age in the hills257
Monongahela, the river and its region257
The first explorations of the Trans-Allegheny region by the Virginians, 1650-1674253
The Monongahela of old, or, Historical sketches of south-western Pennsylvania to the year 1800252
Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, W. Va.231
The Soldiery of West Virginia225
Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia225
Letters from the Alleghany Mountains211
Old Westmoreland : a history of western Pennsylvania during the Revolution206
From trail to railway through the Appalachians199
Deutsche Chronik in der Geschichte des Ohio-Thales (in German)198
Report of the Relief Committee of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Common Council of Cincinnati : flood of 1884.193
Notes on a journey in America166
The Baxter family : descendants of George and Thomas Baxter of Westchester County, New York, as well as some West Virginia and162
The Barnes family in West Virginia : being a brief account of this branch of the family in West Virginia162
Pardons by the President149
Expedition of Celoron to the Ohio country in 1749140
Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia140
To the Shenandoah and beyond : the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee128
Footprints of the pioneers in the Ohio Valley126
Journal of Captain William Trent from Logstown to Pickawillany, A.D. 1752111
Journal of Capt. Jonathan Heart108
Stories of the Shenandoah104
The Barrackman-Barrickman families of West Virginia103
Genealogy of the Beckham family in Virginia : and the branches thereof in Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and West Virginia,99
A discourse on the aborigines of the Ohio Valley98
Art work of scenes in the Valley of Virginia, published in twelve parts95
The genealogy of nine early families in the Ohio River Valley91
West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors71
The Dyer settlement, the Fort Seybert massacre : Fort Seybert, West Virginia66
Journal of Jos. W. Fawcett57
Journal of Col. George Croghan38
Documents relating to the French settlements on the Wabash38
The Washingtons and their colonial homes in West Virginia33
Ouiatanon32
The fur trade of the Ohio Valley27
Some elements of Indiana's population, or, Roads west and their early travelers23
The address of Rev. W.J. Holland, D.D., Ph.D., before the Washington County Historical Society, February 22, 190421
Plan for western colonies16
Discovery of the Ohio River by Robert Cavalier de La Salle 1669-707

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