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Which of the following is NOT known to be a creek name in West Virginia?
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Which of the following was human?
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Why is the 1904 murder of Jay Legg in Clay County remembered today?
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Who supposedly led the 1888 New Year's Day arson attack on the McCoy family cabin?
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The murder of which Indian chief's family members led to an uprising in 1774 that culminated in the Battle of Point Pleasant?
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Who led the ambush assassination of Mine Wars leaders Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers in Welch in 1921?
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What Shawnee leader and his son were murdered at Fort Randolph in Point Pleasant in 1777?
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What folk song is about a murder and subsequent 1894 hanging in McDowell County?
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This underworld society of Italian immigrants was known to extort other Italian immigrants in West Virginia in the early 20th century.
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What former vice president of the United States was acquitted of treason charges for holding meetings near Parkersburg to plan a military expedition into the Southwest?
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