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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