The Wataugans
The Wataugans

Author: Max Dixon

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2004-10

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780932807472

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Originally published as part of a series for the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, this well-written volume gives necessary background information and details the early activities in that area in the 1760s. It thoroughly covers the settlement during its vanguard role in the 1770s and chronicles the various events that brought a change from that of a holding action to one of aggressive expansion in the 1780s.

Cherokees of the Old South
Cherokees of the Old South

Author: Henry Thompson Malone

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0820335428

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First published in 1956, this book traces the progress of the Cherokee people, beginning with their native social and political establishments, and gradually unfurling to include their assimilation into “white civilization.” Henry Thompson Malone deals mainly with the social developments of the Cherokees, analyzing the processes by which they became one of the most civilized Native American tribes. He discusses the work of missionaries, changes in social customs, government, education, language, and the bilingual newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix. The book explains how the Cherokees developed their own hybrid culture in the mountainous areas of the South by inevitably following in the white man's footsteps while simultaneously holding onto the influences of their ancestors.

Tennessee: A Bicentennial History
Tennessee: A Bicentennial History

Author: Wilma Dykeman

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1975-12-17

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 039324380X

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Tennessee, the long, thin state stretching from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi River, is as richly varied in history as in terrain. And from Davy Crockett, "Old Hickory" Andrew Jackson, and presidential candidate Estes Kefauver's coonskin cap, it has derived the colorful image of a frontier state. Tennessee has been a land of many kinds of frontiers--from the day in 1540 when Spaniards in armor, fevered for gold and glory, struggled along the river banks near present-day Memphis, to the latest developments in radiation research at today's complicated laboratories in Oak Ridge.