Virginia is home to eight U.S. Presidents. Virginia is the first state to grow peanuts in the U.S. Nearly half the population of the U.S. lives within 500 miles of Richmond. The largest office building globally, the Pentagon, is located in Virginia.

Virginia was named for England’s “Virgin Queen,” Elizabeth I. The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry. Arlington County was originally part of the ten-mile square parcel of land surveyed in 1791 to be part of Washington, DC.

In the book, the ranch, which is actually named "Sunk Creek", is two hundred seventy miles from Medicine Bow. When the Virginian is promoted to foreman, he moves out of the bunkhouse to his own home on the ranch. The Virginian and Trampas are not friends. Near the end of the book, Trampas is killed by the Virginian. Helpful • 22 0