Across the first divide: Frontiers of settlement and culture in Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770

This is a history of a frontier county in late colonial Virginia. Augusta County was created in 1738 and subdivided for the first time in 1770. During the intervening years it encompassed most of Virginia's claims to land west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.;As drawn by Virginians, the borders of...

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Main Author: McCleskey, Nathaniel Turk
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: W&M ScholarWorks 1990
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623794
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3704&context=etd