Otis Kermit Rice (June 6, 1919 – September 22, 2003) was an American academic historian specializing in West Virginia history.^[1][2] His career was mostly at the West Virginia Institute of Technology (1957–87) at Montgomery where he was chairman of the history department and dean of the School of Human Studies.^[3] In 2003 he became West Virginia’s first Historian Laureate.^[4][5]

Works

Books

• The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830 (1970), University of Kentucky Press
• Charleston and the Kanawha Valley: An Illustrated History (1981), Woodland Hills, California: Windsor Publications
• The Hatfields and the McCoys (1982), University Press of Kentucky
• History of the New River Gorge Area (1984), West Virginia Institute of Technology
• West Virginia: A History (1985; 2nd edition 1993; with Stephen W. Brown), Both editions: University Press of Kentucky
• A History of Greenbrier County (1986), Greenbrier Historical Society
• Sheltering Arms Hospital (with Wayne Williams)
• The Mountain State: An Introduction to West Virginia (1997; with Stephen W. Brown)
• A Centennial of Strength: A History of Banking in West Virginia (1991), Charleston: West Virginia Bankers Association; (with Stephen W. Brown)
• Frontier Kentucky (1993), University Press of Kentucky
• West Virginia: The State and Its People (1997), Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company

Monographs

• "Importations of Cattle into Kentucky, 1790-1830" (1951), Register of the Kentucky Historical Society; 49: 35-47.
• "The Sandy Creek Expedition of 1756" (1951), West Virginia History; 13: 5-19.
• "West Virginia Printers and Their Work, 1790-1830" (1953), West Virginia History; 14: 297-338.
• "Coal Mining in the Kanawha Valley to 1861: A View of Industrialization in the Old South" (1965), Journal of Southern History; 31: 393-416 (November issue).
• "Eli Thayer and the Friendly Invasion of Virginia" (1971), Journal of Southern History; 37: 575-96.