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    <unittitle>Printed volume, "Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain"</unittitle>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">31 pages</extent>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="approximate" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1889/1889">1889</unitdate>
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<p>A guide and the by - laws of the "Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain", which was a privately owned hunting and fishing preserve in Randolph County, West Virginia founded in 1887. This small volume was published in 1889. It is inscribed by William S. Edwards of Charleston, West Virginia, who was a member of the board of directors of the association. The volume includes printed maps of the vicitiniy of the preserve. Found in the volume is a segment of a photograph of a hunting party and related scenes.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>[Printed volume, "Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain"], Rockbridge Historical Society Collection, R.H.S. Coll. #0060, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA</p>
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<p>This collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <subject source="fast">Hunting</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Fishing</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Forest reserves</subject>
    <geogname source="local">West Virginia--Randolph County</geogname>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="local">Sportsmen's Association of Cheat Mountain</corpname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="local">Edwards, William S. </persname>
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