West Press imprint: 125 books
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition
One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West.
In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of...
The Industrialist and the Mountaineer
The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a...
Robert C. Byrd
Child of the Appalachian Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred...
Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast
Ralph Bramel Lloyd and the Shaping of the Urban West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Oil and Urbanization on the Pacific Coast tells the story of oilman Ralph Bramel Lloyd, a small business owner who drove the development of one of America’s largest oil fields. Lloyd invested his petroleum earnings in commercial real estate—much of it centered around automobiles and the fuel they...
Monongah
The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. Reich
*Monongah: *The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on...
by Steven L. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Central Appalachia is the system of linear ridges, intervening valleys, and deeply dissected plateaus that make up the rugged terrain found in western and southwestern Virginia, eastern and central West Virginia, western Maryland, and a portion of south central and southwestern Pennsylvania. Through...
Community Effects of Leadership Development Education
Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. These programs fill gaps in what people know about governance and the processes of governance, especially at the local level. The work of many in this field is a response to the recognition...
by Linda Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
A sizzling new novel set in Taos, New Mexico. The third in the Justine Trilogy, preceded by the award-winning, The Cairo Codex and The Italian Letters.Anthropologist Justine Jenner travels to Taos in search of D. H. Lawrence . . . and her own identity. She stumbles into the conflict and hunt for the...
Cast in Deathless Bronze
Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba. He was to meet with General Calixto García, a leader of the Cuban rebels, in order to gather information for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after...
by EMORY L. KEMP
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history. This collection of essays encompasses over fifty years of his...
by VALERIE NIEMAN
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful—and dangerous—than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure...
Appalachian Reckoning
A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...
Hollow and Home
A History of Self and Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and constructed places—location, topography, landscape, and buildings. It also refers to the psychological,...
George Washington Written Upon the Land
Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.
In George Washington Written upon...