Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838 - Softcover

Jr, Amos Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817312528 ISBN 13: 9780817312527

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2003

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"Allows researchers to plot the locations of towns during particular periods, since they were occasionally moved. This excellent work ends with an appendix that lists known variant spellings of town names, arranged under the anglicized form used in the text. Highly recommended."--"Choice" "Obviously a labor of love, Amos Wright's massive research effort . . . will delight anthropologists, historians, geographers, and citizens of Alabama."--Marvin T. Smith, Valdosta State University

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This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location, descriptions, and (if any) movements. While publications dating back to 1901 have attempted to compile such a listing, none until now has so exhaustively harvested the 214 historic maps drawn between 1544, when Hernando de Soto's entourage first came through the southeastern territory, and 1846, when Indian removal to the Oklahoma Territory was complete. Wright combines the map data with a keen awareness of both previously published information and archival sources, such as colonial town lists, census information, and travel narratives. The towns are listed alphabetically, and the text of each entry develops chronologically, While only a few of these towns have been accurately located by archaeologists, this volume provides a wealth of information for the future study of cultural geography, southeastern archaeology, and ethnohistory. It will be an enduring reference source for many years to come.

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• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0817312528
• ISBN 13: 9780817312527
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192