Author: Walter T. Durham

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780826512987

In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.