The Natchez Trace is remarkable in American history for the legends
and tales surrounding it. During the first half of the nineteenth
century, travelers--traders, settlers, and the occasional war party
or fugitive from justice--followed its course from the Appalachians
to the lower Mississippi, from Knoxville to Natchez.
In this vibrant and energetic account, the author has mined both
history and legend for startling tales of the near-mythical
thieves, cutthroats, and confidence men once reported to have
stalked their unsuspecting victims along this frontier trail--the
terrible Harpe brothers, who came to a satisfactorily bad end;
Samuel Mason, a thief done in by other thieves; and John Murrell,
whose reputed schemes threw the South into a paroxysm of fear.
Robert M. Coates retells the stories of these and other "land
pirates" in chilling and ominous detail, preserving for us the
tales once whispered on the edges of the dark southern woods nearly
two centuries ago.
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