By the Banks of the Holly - Notes and Letters from the Desk of Bernard Mollohan - B Marie Mollohan

The land was called \Virginia\ by Sir Walter Raleigh. A region of natural beauty, governed by temperamental weather, the western slopes of the Alleghenies beckoned a sturdy stock of early hunters, explorers, and settlers. This is the story of how those early residents forged a home, a nation, and finally, a state, along these rocky slopes.