West Virginia: A Guide To The Mountain State

American Guide Series

by Work Projects Administration

During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series . This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. No library collection in West Virginia would be complete without a copy of West A Guide To The Mountain State.

674 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1941

Reviews

[Sam Shingleton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A WPA artist project book, it is very well written description of West Virginia up to the Great Depression era. Like all of the books in this series, there are excellent black & white photographs