The Very Worst Road - Travellers Accounts of Crossing Alabama s Old Creek Indian

Informationen zum Autor Col. Jeffrey C. Benton USAF (ret.) holds the MPS degree from Auburn University and an MA from the University of North Carolina. His other books include They Served Here: 33 Maxwell Men , A Sense of Place: Montgomery's Architectural Heritage , and Air Force Officer's Guide . Klappentext "The Very Worst Road" contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the "Old Federal Road," more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River. Zusammenfassung Contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the 'Old Federal Road'. This title deals with the rather remarkable array of impediments that faced travelers in Alabama in its first decades as a state. It describes the road! the inns! the travelling companions! and the few and raw communities.

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• Autori: Not Available (NA)
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeffrey C Benton (Editore), Jeffrey C. Benton (Editore)
• Editore: The University of Alabama Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780817355500
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5550-0
• Pagine: 176
• Serie: Alabama Fire Ant; Fire Ant Books; Fire Ant Books; Alabama Fire Ant
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio