The Devil's Backbone The Story of the Natchez Trace

Daniels, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0882894382 / ISBN 13: 9780882894386

Verlag: Pelican, 1992

Beschreibung

Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has wear on both covers and spine that is difficult to see in the scans. Book has previous store stamps on page edges and top, right corner of title page. With a history as dark and bloody as any in our nation, the Natchez Trace has always been more than just a thoroughfare. Growing out of a need for a return route for flatboats that floated down the Mississippi, the Trace winds up from Natchez, Mississippi, through Alabama and ends in Nashville, Tennessee. From the start, the Natchez Trace was alive with rugged pioneers, politicians, ladies of fashion, settlers, soldiers, and robbers. You'll learn about the trail and the notable figures who traversed it, such as Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Daniel Boone, and Meriwether Lewis, whose death on the Trace is still a mystery. Leading all the way to Texas, the Natchez Trace was the road for troops going to the Battle of New Orleans, the path walked by the men who were to die at the Alamo, and an escape route for slaves. The Devil's Backbone is chock full of the ever-changing parade of travelers along the Natchez Trace. The author tells the story of the people who built America, crossing a wilderness to create a nation. We are donsbookstore in Albuquerque New Mexico. The book you see in the image is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Devil's Backbone The Story of the Natchez Trace
• Verlag: Pelican
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0882894382
• ISBN-13: 9780882894386
• Einband: Mass Market Paperback
• Druck: 4th Printing
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

The Natchez Trace has as dark and bloody a history as any thoroughfare since the beginning of our nation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Author Jonathan Daniels was a newspaper editor in Raleigh, North Carolina, a historian, a public servant, and an expert on the Old and New South. He wrote a number of other books and contributed to such magazines as Harper's and The Saturday Evening Post.