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Which West Virginia county is the oldest?
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This Clarksburg printer wrote the classic 1831 book Chronicles of Border Warfare.
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This last colonial governor of Virginia ordered the attack that became the Battle of Point Pleasant.
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Fort Pearsall was built during the French & Indian War to protect settlers around this town.
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Which of the following was NOT a treaty in which Indians gave away their claims to land in present West Virginia?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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From which direction did most Indian attacks occur during the frontier period?
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During the French & Indian War, what settler was famously captured by Shawnee and, after living with them, courageously escaped on foot along the Kanawha and New rivers?
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Two West Virginia counties are named for this Indian leader of the 1700s.
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Who bought up much of the area in and around Charleston in the late 1700s from John Dickinson and George Clendenin?
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