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 
    Publication Design  | 
     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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