Volume 45, Number 2
On the cover: A highway patrol motorcycle team, driven by Sgt. Sam Taylor, 1920s. Courtesy of the West Virginia State Police Archives.
Published by the
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Jim Justice, Governor
Randall Reid-Smith, Curator
Department of Arts, Culture and History
Stan Bumgardner, Editor
Joseph Aluise, Assistant Editor
Jacob Hall Design
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Summer 2019
- 2 From the Editor
- 3 GOLDENSEAL Good-Bye: George Daugherty
- By Mack Samples
- 4 “If you want to be a part of Huntington,
- you need to eat at Jim’s!”
By Emily Hilliard
- 6 The West Virginia State Police:
- Born of Chaos
By Merle T. Cole
- 16 Thomas B. Davis: The Governor’s Go-to Guy
- By Merle T. Cole
- 18 An Early Manhunt
- By Merle T. Cole
- 20 Highway Patrol
- By Merle T. Cole
- 28 West Virginia Mounties
- By Merle T. Cole
- 30 A Border Photo Mystery
- By Merle T. Cole
- 32 Did You Know? Other Facts
- about the State Police
By Aaron Parsons
- 38 Sharen Sumpter Deitz:
- “I’m not a woman, I’m a trooper”
By Aaron Parsons
- 44 Documerica West Virginia
- By Larry Shockley
- 56 Harpers Ferry: The Power of Place
- By Christine M. Kreiser
- 64 Civil War Battlefield Preservation
- By Ernest Everett Blevins
- 74 Hunter Lesser: Historian
- and Preservationist
By Susan M. Pierce
- 78 West Virginia Back Roads:
- A Visit with Eddy Cathers
By Carl E. Feather
- Return to Goldenseal
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