The Catawba River Companion
The Catawba River Companion

Author: Diane Milks

Publisher: Palmetto Conservation Foundation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780967901688

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The only guidebook to the entire Catawba River in North and South Carolina. Illustrated with nearly two-dozen color maps and 50 dramatic color photographs, it will take you to dozens of exciting family getaways and nature stops and give you a flavor of the local history, the flora, and fauna along the Catawba.

A Companion to the American South
A Companion to the American South

Author: John B. Boles

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1405138300

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A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States. Contains 29 original essays by leading experts in American Southern history. Covers the entire sweep of Southern history, including slavery, politics, the Civil War, race relations, religion, and women's history. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.

Eminent Charlotteans
Eminent Charlotteans

Author: Scott Syfert

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1476666490

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Inspired by the 2010 "Spirit of Mecklenburg"--a bronze statue of Captain James Jack, "the South's Paul Revere," in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina--this history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to the 20th century. Subjects include Catawba Indian chief King Haigler, Founding Father Thomas Polk, freed slave Ishmael Titus, African American celebrity barber Thad Tate and North Carolina's first woman physician, Annie Alexander.