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More Tales of Tennessee (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 190
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More Tales of Tennessee (Paperback)
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Loot Price R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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Once again, Louise Littleton Davis has produced from her store of
knowledge and understanding of Tennessee history a collection of
engrossing stories about the people and events that went into the
making of that great state. This book spans two centuries, from
pre-Revolutionary days into the 1800s. The reader will now meet
many more of early Tennessee's colorful characters, often in
unexpected places. Pious and profane, noble and notorious, all of
these historical figures emerge as real men and women who worked,
fought, and prayed a young state into being. Accounts of incredible
land deals dramatize the tragedy of American Indians pushed west by
the white man's greed. Tribute is paid to John Ross, the most
notable of all Cherokee chiefs, whose lifelong struggle for the
rights of the Indians ended with the infamous "Trail of Tears," a
death march for many of the 17,000 Cherokees forced by U.S. Army
troops to walk from Tennessee to Oklahoma. Frontier criminal
justice, shocking by today's standards, reveals a rugged society
that considered horse thievery worse than murder and administered
punishment accordingly. The strict, often harsh, religious
structure that ruled frontier communities is reflected in accounts
of church trials concerning many matters now handled by civil
courts. Tennessee was not without its dissidents, however. Colonel
Thomas Butler defied an Army order to trim his ponytail locks.
Ironically, the hero of the Revolutionary War found that his
appeals for support to Washington met the same resistance as did
the Cherokees' pleas for their land.
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