Themes:

• Early Exploration of Western Virginia

• Imperial conflict in the region

• Expansion of white settlement and white/Native American conflict

• The American Revolution in the Trans-Allegheny

• Frontier religion

• Travelers' descriptions of the region

• Early industrial and commercial development

People, Places, Terms, and Events:

• Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam

• John Fontaine

• Andrew Lewis

• William Preston

• Mary Ingles

• George Washington

• Proclamation Line of 1863

• Chief Cornstalk

• Chief Logan

• Lord Dunmore

• Anne Bailey

• Elizabeth Zane

• Rev. Francis Asbury

• Lewis Wetzel

• Joseph Dodderidge

• Alexander Wilson

• French and Indian War

• Big Sandy Expedition

• Battle of Point Pleasant

• Fort Gower Resolves

• circuit riding

• Kanawha Valley

• salt industry

• Wheeling

Study Questions:

• How did the British royal government attempt to regulate white/Native American relations on the Appalachian frontier after the French and Indian War? Were its policies successful?

• What conclusions about frontier life can you draw from the experiences of Rev. Francis Asbury? From the journals of John Fontaine and William Preston? How did Joseph Dodderidge and Alexander Wilson interpret frontier life? How were their observations similar, and how were they different?

• What do the readings on the Kanawha salt industry and the city of Wheeling suggest about economic transformation in antebellum western Virginia? What were some of the characteristics of Wheeling in 1830?