Title The Blackwater chronicle : a narrative of an expedition into the land of Canaan in Randolph County, Virginia : a country flowing with wild animals, such as panthers, bears, wolves, elk, deer, otter, badger, &c., &c., with innumberable trout / by five adventurous gentleman, with any aid of government, and solely by their own resources, in the summer of 1851 ; by Philip Pendleton Kennedy ; illustrated by David Hunter Strother ; edited and with a preface by Timothy Sweet

Edition Second edition Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations Series West Virginia and Appalachia West Virginia and Appalachia. Contents Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Introductory -- Chapter II. Getting under Way -- Chapter III. In which the Expedition dances a Hornpipe on the Top of a Mountain -- Chapter IV. The Cockneys explained by the Prior of St. Philips, from the Top of the Allegany -- Chapter V. Winston and its Castellan � Mr. Edward Towers -- Chapter VI. The Blackwater Invasion determined upon -- Chapter VII. The Dale on the Potomac � and a Somewhat Particular Description of the Array -- Chapter VIII. The March into the Canaan -- Chapter IX. The Lodge in the Wilderness Chapter X. The Blackwater Found � A Great Number of Trout taken � Mr. Butcut fries some FishChapter XI. The Blackwater Villa -- Chapter XII. The Falls of the Blackwater -- Chapter XIII. How we got out of the Canaan � and in Spite of our Teeth -- Chapter XIV. The Return to Winston � “Bootless Home and Weather-beaten Back.� Notes Originally published: New York : J.S. Redfield, 1853 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxvi) Notes Print version record Subject Kennedy, Philip Pendleton, 1808-1864 -- Travel -- West Virginia -- Canaan Valley SUBJECT Kennedy, Philip Pendleton, 1808-1864 fast Subject Natural history -- West Virginia -- Canaan Valley Natural history -- West Virginia -- Blackwater River TRAVEL -- United States -- South -- South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) Natural history Travel SUBJECT Canaan Valley (W. Va.) -- Description and travel Blackwater River (W. Va.) -- Description and travel Subject West Virginia -- Blackwater River West Virginia -- Canaan Valley Form Electronic book Author Sweet, Timothy, 1960- editor. Srother, David Hunter, illustrator ISBN 9781935978343 1935978349

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