Brent, thanks for that recommendation.   I see that the cheapest  price for 
it on Amazon is $75; the next is $148.   Interlibrary  loan time !
 
--Warren
 
 
In a message dated 5/24/2011 11:14:36 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
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There is  a fine book, even though its title is not very sexy, about the
big business  of salt production in the Kanawha Valley before the Civil
War: John E.  Stealey, III, The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and
Western Markets  (University of Kentucky Press, 1993).

Brent Tarter
Library of  Virginia
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