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Want to learn more? Can't wait for the book? Here are resources to help you learn more about the 8th Virginia, the frontier, and the Revolutionary War in general.

In Print

Calloway, Colin G. The Shawnees and the War for America. New York: Penguin, 2007.

David, James Corbett. Dunmore’s New World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Hendricks, Christopher E. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

Kercheval, Samuel. A History of the Valley of Virginia. Winchester: Samuel H. Davis, 1833.

McNeill, John Robert. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus. The Life of Major General Peter Muhlenberg. Philadelphia: Cary and Hart, 1849.

Nelson, John K. A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Rouse, Parke, Jr, The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia: 1775-1783. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988.

Ward, Harry M. Charles Scott and the “Spirit of ’76.” Charlottesville: [[University of Virginia Press,]] 1988.

Ward, Harry M. Major General Adam Stephen and the Cause of American Liberty. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.

Wayland, John W. The Bowmans: A Pioneering Family in Virginia, Kentucky, and the Northwest Territory. Staunton, Va.: McClure, 1943.

Wright, Jr., Robert K. The Continental Army. Center of Military History, United States Army. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1983.

Online

"Birth of American Frontier Culture" (Mitchell Farish)

"'The B Team' of 1777: Maxwell's Light Infantry" (Gabe Neville)

"A Forty Year Bond: William Darke and George Washington in Politics, Business, and War" (Gabe Neville)

Harmony Hall/Fort Bowman Presentation (Maral Kalbian and Margaret Peters)

"He's the Lee in Ft. Lee" (Gabe Neville)

"Jonathan Clark--A Witness to History" (Jim Holmberg)

"Peter Muhlenberg: The Pastor Turned Soldier" (Joshua Horn)

Remarks on Col. Peter Muhlenberg (Karen Cooper)

"The Reverend Peter Muhlenberg: A Symbiotic Adventure in Virginia, 1772-1783" (George M. Smith)

"[Captain] Robert Higgins" (Kentucky SAR)

"Shenandoah County and the American Revolution" (Karen Cooper)

"The Southern Frontier in the American Revolution" (Walter Edgar)

"[Major] William Darke" (Dictionary of Virginia Biography)

Note: Wikipedia.com entries pertaining to the 8th Virginia are generally poorly sourced and contain a number of factual errors.

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