About the Author John Stealey is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Shepherd University and the author of Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century United States Monopoly: The Virginia Combinations, Porte Crayon\'s Mexico: David Hunter Strother\'s Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879-1885, and West Virginia\'s Civil War-Era Constitution: Loyal Revolution, Confederate Counter-Revolution and the Convention of 1872..
About the Author John Stealey is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Shepherd University and the author of Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century United States Monopoly: The Virginia Combinations, Porte Crayon\'s Mexico: David Hunter Strother\'s Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879-1885, and West Virginia\'s Civil War-Era Constitution: Loyal Revolution, Confederate Counter-Revolution and the Convention of 1872.