Elk River History Fishing West Virginia Genealogy book Start Price USD 49.99 Current Price USD 49.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, August 19, 2008 End Time Friday, August 22, 2008 Location Upper Marlboro, MD See more about 'Elk River History Fishing West Virginia Genealogy book' Description   Tale of the Elkby W.E.R. ByrneMountain State Press; Richwood, West VirginiaCopyright 1940 by D.N. Mohler; Reprinted by Mountain State PressDetails: Hardcover; 6 x 9 ¼ inches; and 455 pages. This book gives a vivid telling of the Elk River from an author who knew it well. It gives anecdotes of its geography, history, fishing, stories, legends, wildlife, law, lumber, timber industry, and more. Most of the accounts are from the 1st half of the twenty century (few from the late 19th century). The cover has corner wear, and wear on the spine cover ends. The binding is tight. The name of the former owner (Jeniver J. Jones) is on the front end paper. The pages are white and clean otherwise. Former Owner: The book is from the collection of Jeniver James Jones. He was a well known lawyer, citizen and local historian of Braxton, County, West Virginia. Table of Contents: The Headwaters; The Dry Bed; Cowger’s Mill and Whittaker Falls; A Whittaker Falls Fish Yarn; Big Creeks and Little Creeks; The Elk, the Hamricks and Dodrills; Kemp Littlepage Joins the Camp at the End of the Wprld; Fork Lick; Webster Springs Comes to View; John E. Kenna Descends the Elk; Revercomb, Byrne, Williams; and the Brandy Keg; Who’s Who and Why at Webster Springs; A Glance at the Lumber Industry and a Senatorial Card Game; The State vs. Henon Fleming; the Law Gets Started; “Puzzle Hole” for Lawyers and Fishermen; The Story of the Christmas Tree; The Elk Comes to Braxton; Holly River; Palmer Lumber Days; Lon Kelly’s Famous Fishing Contest; The Town of Sutton; Big and Little Fishes; Camden and Cogar Look at Fish and Life; McCourt Looks at a Court; Two Hundred and Thirty-Five Bass Tie with Footlog for Sutton Honors; The Story of Terror Pinnacle; Dr. “Nedmac” Becomes a Scientist; Men and Mills: “Col.” Brown Worries about “He-vickles and Hi-vickles”; Saw Logs, Yellow Poplar, and Shooting Matches; A Druggist, a Distiller of Mountain Dew, and a Quart; Price, Cornwell, Conley, Lively, Cleveland, and other Fishermen; Doctor Newlon, the Town, and its Aches and Ills; Doctor Humphreys Looks at Artillery, Creek, and Fish; Around the River’s Bend to Clay; Jack Fisher’s Typewriter Gigs a Frog; Troubles Continue; the Groves Mill Pike; or “Was it a Red-Horse?”; Clay Court House; “Fish, Bench, and Bar”; Ed Andrews, Charlie Bland; Floods, Flies; Savagetown and Elk River Iron; a Strange Man on Strange Creek; A Look at Land Titles and Stream Names; Sam Fox, the Merchant, Sells Out; Birch River Days, Col. Albert Lewis, a High Silk Hat; Judge John Brannon; Politics, a Campaign Speech, McCune Cadle, and a “Hog with a Swallow Fork in Left Ear”; Devil’s Backbone Gets a Name; Dogs, Gigs, and Fish; A Deal in Boats and Law; “ The Largest Smallmouth Black Bass I Ever Saw”; Stephenson and Andrews Hire Stuttering Billy “Nickles”; Henry Davenport, the Law, and the Pike; Billy “Nickles” Calls on J.G. Bradley; Judges of the Law and of Fish; The Pike that Broke Up Court; George E. Price Doubts Jury and Fish; A Visit to the Upper Elk, Bats and Snakes; The State vs. Havens: Thompson Becomes a Witness; Andrews and Byrne Solve a Mountain Murder; First Camp on Elk; Al Jennings in West Virginia; “Rock Oil,” Rheumatiz,” and Engineering on Sycamore; Logging on Elk; Blue Pike vs. Red Horse; “Preacher” Cain Goes “A-Lawin”; The Story of Yankee Dam and the “Sob” Tree; Rafting on the Elk; Msjor A.H. Campbell and the “Paper” Railroad; the “Wicked” Tree Peeler Visits Charleston; The Elk Joins the Kanawha; Who’s Who and Why Along the Lower Valley; The Camp at the end of the world.      Click the pictures below to enlarge       My other auction items on eBay click here!     Place a Bid!