Otis Kermit Rice (June 6, 1919 – September 22, 2003) was an American academic historian specializing in

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history. His career was mostly at the West Virginia Institute of Technology (1957–87) at Montgomery where he was chairman of the history department and dean of the School of Human Studies. In 2003 he became West Virginia’s first Historian Laureate.

Works

Books

*''The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830'' (1970),

University of Kentucky Press The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 194 ...

*''Charleston and the Kanawha Valley: An Illustrated History'' (1981),

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: Windsor Publications *''The Hatfields and the McCoys'' (1982), University Press of Kentucky *''History of the New River Gorge Area'' (1984), West Virginia Institute of Technology *''West Virginia: A History'' (1985; 2nd edition 1993; with Stephen W. Brown), Both editions: University Press of Kentucky *''A History of Greenbrier County'' (1986), Greenbrier Historical Society *''Sheltering Arms Hospital'' (with Wayne Williams) *''The Mountain State: An Introduction to West Virginia'' *''A Centennial of Strength: A History of Banking in West Virginia'' (1991), Charleston: West Virginia Bankers Association; (with Stephen W. Brown) *''Frontier Kentucky'' (1993), University Press of Kentucky *''West Virginia: The State and Its People'' (1997),

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McClain Printing Company The McClain Printing Company (MPC) is a printing company specializing in books of West Virginia history and lore. The company was incorporated in 1958 in Parsons, West Virginia as an outgrowth of the local weekly newspaper, the ''Parsons Advocate'' ...

Monographs

*"Importations of Cattle into Kentucky, 1790-1830" (1951), '' Register of the Kentucky Historical Society''; 49: 35-47. *"The Sandy Creek Expedition of 1756" (1951), ''

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''; 13: 5-19. *"West Virginia Printers and Their Work, 1790-1830" (1953), ''

''; 14: 297-338. *"Coal Mining in the Kanawha Valley to 1861: A View of Industrialization in the Old South" (1965), ''

Journal of Southern History The Southern Historical Association is a professional academic organization of historians focusing on the history of the Southern United States. It was organized on November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in Sout ...

''; 31: 393-416 (November issue). *"Eli Thayer and the Friendly Invasion of Virginia" (1971), ''

''; 37: 575-96.

References

1919 births 2003 deaths West Virginia University Institute of Technology faculty Historians of Virginia Historians of West Virginia People from Montgomery, West Virginia Writers from West Virginia 20th-century American educators {{US-historian-stub