Covers the counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe.

This volume has long been recognized as the definitive history of the area from 1748 to 1920. Divided into six distinct periods, it begins with the Aboriginal Period and ends with the Postbellum or Development Period, which details the immense growth in the Tazewell County area and other parts of Southwest Virginia. Numerous illustrations and photographs of early settlers, outstanding citizens of later periods, houses built when the county was young, and scenic views of Tazewell's beautiful landscape add interest and color to the outstanding work. This edition also includes an index with approximately 3,000 names.

William Thompson (abt. 1720-1797) married Jane Buchanan in County Down, Ireland. She died and he married Lydia Graham (1743-1830) and immigrated to Tazewell County, Virginia. Descendants, relatives and allied families lived in Virginia, Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah and elsewhere. Some descendants joined the LDS Church in the 1870's.

Related families were Howell, Justis, Morton, Robinson, Tussey, Walraven, Porterfield, Gilliam, and many others. Descendants lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and elsewhere.

Related families were Huston, Alcorn, Crank, Emmerson, Knowles, Yocum, Ranard, and many others. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Often referred to as America's last frontier, Buchanan County, Virginia, was formed in 1858 by Act 156 of the Virginia General Assembly. The young county was named after Pres. James Buchanan, and Grundy, the county seat, was named for U.S. senator Felix Grundy, who later became attorney general in Pres. Martin Van Buren's cabinet. Images of America: Buchanan County tells the history of a county from the days of the Long Hunters--who settled the area and named its rivers, salt licks, mountains, and valleys--through the Civil War, when the mountainous terrain along the Virginia-Kentucky state line served as a no-man's-land between the Northern-Southern army, to the coal boom of the 1970s that created instant millionaires. Buchanan County has survived floods, fires, and economic and political demands to emerge anew in the year 2006.