The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806-1836 / Henry deLeon Southerland, Jr. and Jerry Elijah Brown ; maps by Charles Jefferson Hiers
- Author
- Southerland, Henry deLeon
- Published
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1989]
- Copyright Date
- ©1989
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 198 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Brown, Jerry Elijah, 1945-
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- Contents
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: But for the Federal Road ... -- 1. The National Perspective; 2. Stayed Couriers; 3. The War Road; 4. Almost Impassable -- 5. Passing Strangers; 6. Sojourners and Statehood; 7. Two Ghosts; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Summary
- Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Federal Road was a major influence in settlement of the Mississippi Territory during the period between the Louisiana Purchase and removal of the Creek Indians. Histories of early Alabama covering this period are replete with references to isolated incidents along the Federal Road but heretofore no documented history drawn from original sources has been published. Authors Southerland and Brown have explored many scattered and.
- Subject(s)
- 1775-1950
- Creek Indians—History
- Indians of North America—Alabama—History
- Indians of North America—Georgia—History
- Creek—Histoire
- Peuples autochtones—Alabama—Histoire
- Peuples autochtones—Géorgie (État)—Histoire
- HISTORY—State & Local
- Creek Indians
- Indians of North America
- Federal Road (Ala. and Ga.)—History
- Alabama—History—1819-1950
- Georgia—History—1775-1865
- Alabama—Histoire—1819-1950
- Géorgie (État)—Histoire—1775-1865
- Alabama
- Georgia
- United States—Federal Road
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0585192537 (electronic bk.)
9780585192536 (electronic bk.)
9780817305185
0817305181
0817304436 (alk. paper)
9780817304430 (alk. paper) - Note
- "Sponsored by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission."
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-189).
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