Home West Virginia's northern panhandle was once prime U.S. sheep country U.S. Sheep Production 1850

U.S. Sheep Production 1850

U.S. Sheep Production 1850, from "A Brief History of the Sheep Industry in the United States," 1921, authored by L.G. Conner.

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