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To: H-NET/OIEAHC Electronic Association in Early American Studies <H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU> First, Bernard Bailyn's epic: "Voyagers to the West; ... the Peopling of America ..." Knopf, New York (1986), must be considered the best single background work on migration in the period you are looking at; Secondly, David Hackett Fischer & James C. Kelly have just released "Bound Away; Virginia and the Westward Movement" Univ. Virginia Press, C'ville (2000); this work gives some emphasis on the settlements in the SW Shenandoah Valley, and the migration "streams" through the area of your focus; Thirdly, I recall a work on the lower (ie, northern) Shenandoah Valley, by O'Dell ?, something like "Old Frederick County (Virginia) ..."; treatment of the first half of the Philadelphia Wagon Road and the migration route you are looking at; (I don't know of any authoritative work on the "Carolina Road" - the piedmont migration route) Best Wishes Cheers; John John T. Phillips, II, Esq. University of Virginia LongKnife@Virginia.edu www.VirginiaHistory.org
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