Subject: The Holstonia Bibliography. An experiment.
Date: Sunday 15 February 2009. 12:30 am.
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From: Jim Glanville <[log in to unmask]>

Fellow VA-Hist list subscribers:

The document HolstoniaBibliography101.pdf is an experimental, 
permanently-in-progress, bibliography and commentary written with the 
convictions that 1. The pre-1800 history of Southwest Virginia and 
Northeast Tennessee is important and insufficiently appreciated, and 2. 
That we live in an amazing world. It is a document written to be 
searched in and clicked on. This posted document is version 1.01.

This pdf file is a linked bibliography. A number of sources of the 
primary documents of Virginia history can be reached by clicking on the 
appropriate places in the document. Examples of the relevance of such 
documents to the history my region are included. The document includes a 
glossary and offers practical hints about how on line documents to which 
it links can be accessed and manipulated.

While its focus is western Virginia, many of the linked references are 
comprehensively relevant to Virginia history.

The document invites criticisms, complaints, comments, questions, and 
suggestions for its improvement. It remarks that "… subscribers to [this 
VA-Hist] list will be singularly unbashful in taking me to task both for 
my errors and for my opinions."

You can find this experiment posted on line at 
http://www.holstonia.net/files/HolstoniaBibliographyV101.pdf.

Jim Glanville
Retired Chemist
201 Graves Avenue
Blacksburg, VA 24060-5305

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