The Tennessee
The Old River: Frontier to Secession
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 1991
342 pages
978-1-4616-9998-9 (ISBN)
Description
From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity," this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished. Southern Classics Series.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-9998-9 (9781461699989)
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J S Sanders and Company Incorporated
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Person
Tennessean Donald Davidson was a member of the Vanderbilt Fugitive poetry group and a leading Southern Agrarian. In addition to his poetry and histories, Davidson's works include The Attack on Leviathan and Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. Two Rivers in One
- II. First Comers
- III. The River of the Cherokees
- IV. Myths and Games of the Cherokees
- V. The Carolina Traders and Their Empire
- VI. The Brilliant Idea of a Scottish Baronet
- VII. Captain Demeré Builds Fort Loudoun
- VIII. The Siege and Fall of Fort Loudoun
- IX. Stuart's Escape and Timberlake's Mission
- X. Rally in the Canebrake
- XI. The Voyage of the Good Boat Adventure
- XII. John Sevier and the Lost State of Franklin
- XIII. Dragging Canoe Blockades the River
- XIV. Flatboat and Keelboat Days
- XV. Boatmen and Outlaws on the Natchez Trace
- XVI. Early Steamboat Days
- XVII. The Indians Go West
- XVIII. The First Attack on Muscle Shoals and the Suck
- XIX. How It Was in the Old Days
- XX. Secession
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
