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This enslaved man heroically helped defend Fort Donnally in the Greenbrier Valley during an attack by Shawnee Indians in 1778.
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Which Indian tribe fought at the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant?
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A member of this pioneering family in present-day central West Virginia supposedly wrote the fiddle tune "Shelvin' Rock" while sheltering from Indians.
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What marker rests at the corner of present Grant, Preston, and Tucker counties?
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In 1777, this settler led an ambush in present-day Marshall County that murdered 21 Indians.
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Which of the following was NOT typically considered to be part of a frontier fort?
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This Brooke County settler published the earliest known account of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
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Which one of the following was NOT considered an "Indian war" from the 1700s?
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What Wheeling socialite publicly claimed that Betty Zane's heroic actions at the 1782 Battle of Fort Henry never occurred?
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Vandalia was a failed attempt at what?
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