1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Mary Harrison Clay
Release : 1953
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gideon Lincecum, Southern Pioneer, 1793-1874 by : Mary Harrison Clay
Download or read book Gideon Lincecum, Southern Pioneer, 1793-1874 written by Mary Harrison Clay. This book was released on 1953. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lois Wood Burkhalter
Release : 2010-06-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874 by : Lois Wood Burkhalter
Download or read book Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874 written by Lois Wood Burkhalter. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gideon Lincecum's lifetime the United States expanded from fifteen to thirty-eight states—and Lincecum moved always with or ahead of that expansion. Possessed of a driving intellectual curiosity undeterred by lack of formal education, Lincecum examined all he confronted. He learned from Indians, he read widely, and he corresponded with the great minds of his day. In the process he became many things: physician, musician, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, and translator of Indian dialects. His collection of information and specimens in the field of natural science was used by leading authorities. From his voluminous letters, Mrs. Burkhalter has constructed a picture of a "remarkable and delightful American who deserves a place in the history of this country."
Author : Dennis J. Mitchell
Release : 2014-05-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 62X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A New History of Mississippi by : Dennis J. Mitchell
Download or read book A New History of Mississippi written by Dennis J. Mitchell. This book was released on 2014-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating the first comprehensive narrative of Mississippi since the bicentennial history was published in 1976, Dennis J. Mitchell recounts the vibrant and turbulent history of a Deep South state. The author has condensed the massive scholarship produced since that time into an appealing narrative, which incorporates people missing from many previous histories including American Indians, women, African Americans, and a diversity of other minority groups. This is the story of a place and its people, history makers and ordinary citizens alike. Mississippi's rich flora and fauna are also central to the story, which follows both natural and man-made destruction and the major efforts to restore and defend rare untouched areas. Hernando De Soto, Sieur d’Iberville, Ferdinand Claiborne, Thomas Hinds, Aaron Burr, Greenwood LeFlore, Joseph Davis, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James D. Lynch, James K. Vardaman, Mary Grace Quackenbos, Ida B. Wells, William Alexander Percy, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, John Grisham, Jack Reed, William F. Winter, Jim Barksdale, Richard Howorth, Christopher Epps, and too many more to list—this book covers a vast and rich legacy. From the rise and fall of American Indian culture to the advent of Mississippi’s world-renowned literary, artistic, and scientific contributions, Mitchell vividly brings to life the individuals and institutions that have created a fascinating and diverse state.
Author : Thomas Dionysius Clark
Release : 1996-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 368/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Old Southwest, 1795-1830 by : Thomas Dionysius Clark
Download or read book The Old Southwest, 1795-1830 written by Thomas Dionysius Clark. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early years of the U.S. republic, its vital southwestern quadrant - encompassing the modern-day states between South Carolina and Louisiana - experienced nearly unceasing conflict. In The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict, historians Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred thousand Indians and overtook the final vestiges of Spanish, French, and British presence in the wilderness. Leaders such as Andrew Jackson, who emerged during the Creek War, introduced new policies of Indian removal and state making, along with a decided willingness to let adventurous settlers open up the new territories as a part of the Manifest Destiny of a growing country.
Author : Judy Jacobson
Release : 2009-05
Genre : Alabama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Alabama and Mississippi Connections by : Judy Jacobson
Download or read book Alabama and Mississippi Connections written by Judy Jacobson. This book was released on 2009-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Jacobson, who has previously written genealogical accounts of Massachusetts Bay, Long Island (New York), and Detroit (Michigan), here turns her attention to settlement along the Alabama-Mississippi frontier in the early nineteenth century. As evidenced by the title of the work, the focus is upon families who settled along the Tombigbee River, an area which today occupies all or part of the Alabama counties of Marion, Fayette, Lamar, Tuscaloosa, Greene, Pickens, and Sumter; and the Mississippi counties of Lee, Itawamba, Monroe, Webster, Clay, Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Lowndes, Winston, and Noxubee.
