Charles, I don't remember who the author is/was. After several years of searching the McClungs in Augusta County without much luck, I contacted a friend of mine who was a history professor at one of our local colleges and he is the one that recommended it to me. What I did was checked the book out of our local library, bought a package of transparencies and made my own set of maps of the counties as they were formed. They are all the same size, so I can overlay the transparencies to help figure out what area became what. Anita </HTML>