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The hidden history of southeast Tennessee / Joe Guy.

Title
The hidden history of southeast Tennessee / Joe Guy.
Author
Guy, Joe D.
Publication
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.

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111 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Tennessee > History > Anecdotes
  • Tennessee, East > History > Anecdotes
  • Tennessee > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
  • Tennessee > Anecdotes
  • Tennessee > History, Local > Anecdotes
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes
  • Biographies – Anecdotes
  • History
  • Local history
  • Anecdotes.
  • Biographies – Anecdotes.
  • History.
  • Local history.
Contents
Pt. 1. Stories from East Tennessee -- The good boat adventure -- Spencer Jarnagin : the "lost" senator -- The governor's Bible -- Lost settlement of Polk County -- Hiking through the Old Dutch Settlement -- Looking for De Soto's trail -- pt. 2. Indians -- The old soldier, friend of the Cherokee -- Cherokees in Charlestown, 1759 -- Wilderness survival in eighteenth-century Tennessee : the James Smith story -- The assassination of Jack Walker -- The overbearing governor -- pt. 3. Civil War -- "They killed him in Goodsprings" -- Where the travelers rested -- Uncle Pat -- "The Yanks have fortified the courthouse" -- The price of war : the Van Dyke sons -- Daphne's Thanksgiving -- Forrest's battle at Calhoun -- pt. 4. Strange happenings -- A mausoleum, a legend, a school, and Angelina -- Old steel, cradles, and graves -- The grave robbers -- Haunted Williamsburg -- Dead man's ticket -- Houses of the dead -- The dead and the almost dead -- pt. 5. Politics, small towns, and giant people -- Etowah's doughboys -- One street corner, a thousand stories -- "Going to the store" in early Etowah -- The Athens Academy -- Indians, senators, and governors : the Forest Hill Academy -- The underdogs : Cook High's 1933 basketball team -- Miss Myrtle -- The Campbell-Van Dyke graves -- pt. 6. Holidays and traditions -- George Burger's Christmas -- No fake Christmas trees, beagles, and Mamaw's house -- Cat heads for breakfast.
ISBN
  • 9781596298552
  • 1596298553
LCCN
^^2010019035
OCLC
  • 612963351
  • SCSB-11430641
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