Frontier Tales of Tennessee
Frontier Tales of Tennessee

Author: Louise Littleton Davis

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 1999-05-31

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781455604661

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Louise Littleton Davis offers a collection of detailed, poignant accounts of the people and events that shaped the early history of Tennessee. In Frontier Tales of Tennessee, she traces the personal tragedies and triumphs that shaped the destinies of people struggling to build a young nation and that influenced the course of history itself. A "behind the historical scenes" perspective includes such notable figures as Sam Houston, Aaron Burr, and "Black Horse Harry" Lee.

Natural Nashville
Natural Nashville

Author: Robert Brandt

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-11-22

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1475960867

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Beneath the veneer of Music City, USA and The Athens of the South that each year draws more than 10 million visitors, there is a stunningly beautiful natural landscape enjoyed by locals and outsiders alike. Nashvilles 533 square miles include such varied areas as steep forested ridges, deep rich woods, soggy river bottoms, grassy meadows, and rocky mini-deserts. Much of this heterogeneous landscape is preserved in an ever-expanding award-winning network of greenways and parks. Natural Nashville explores them all. Whether you like to walk, run, hike, bicycle, canoe, bird watch, or just enjoy quiet time outdoors, this guide tells you where to go and what you will find when you get there. More than 25 greenways and parks Detailed descriptions Activities Nashvilles natural landscape A complete guide to more than 25 greenways and nature parks. Detailed descriptions, activities, nature information.

Nashville in the 1890s
Nashville in the 1890s

Author: William Waller

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0826504752

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Derived from first-hand accounts and oral histories collected and stored at Vanderbilt University as well as newspapers and other local history sources, this collection is an invaluable look at the “Gay Nineties” in Nashvillians’ own words. It is, however, not a complete insight into Nashville in the 1890s. Readers should take note that the book focuses almost exclusively on the experiences and worldviews of white Nashvillians. These stories have incredible value for local historians and anyone interested in Nashville history, but the book’s failure to deal with race—as evidenced by Waller’s belief that “the social order was thought to be providential,” which was clearly not true for Nashville’s Black residents who struggled against the unjust systems designed to oppress them—is a grave shortcoming.