Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte Crayon [Pseud.] and His Cousins

by David Hunter Strother

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University LibraryÕs preservation reformatting program.

308 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1857

About the author

David Hunter Strother (September 26, 1816 – March 8, 1888) was an American journalist, artist, soldier, innkeeper, politician and diplomat. Both before and after the American Civil War (in which he was initially a war correspondent), Strother was a successful 19th century American magazine illustrator and writer, popularly known by his pseudonym, "Porte Crayon" (French, porte-crayon: "pencil/crayon holder"). He helped his father operate a 400-guest hotel at Berkeley Springs which was the only spa accessible by rail in the mid-Atlantic states. A Union topographer and nominal cavalry commander during the war, Strother rose to the rank of brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers, and afterward restructured the Virginia Military Institute, as well as served as U.S. consul to Mexico (1879–1885).