Product Description: It was a time of drastic change for the Cherokee and for the frontier. The white settlers approached steadily, their homesites encroaching more and more every year upon the hunting grounds and towns of the Cherokee. Misunderstandings often led to vio-lence, and violence often led to war-war against an unconquerable foe...read more

Product Description: This volume is a compilation of a series of booklets planned by the author to cover succeeding periods of early Tennessee history. Beginning with the long hunters in the 1760s, and the ending with the Tennessee's admittance to the Union in 1796, the thirty-six eventful years are divided into five sections: The Overmountain Men; One Heroic Hour at King's Mountain; The Cumberland Decade; State of Franklin; and Southwest Territory Filled with photographs, maps, and illustrations, this compact, readable text includes "Sycamore Shoals Treaty, March 17, 1775" "Washington County List of Taxable 1778" "Signers of the Franklin Petition" and many other important documents...read more

Product Description: The Tilson Grist MRI, which nestled more than a hundred years in the shadow of mile high Bald Mountain, was donated by the George Frank Tilson family to the Tennessee State Museum. rt has been moved to Nashville and restored to use for public display and demonstration, an exciting centerpiece of the Pioneer Section of the Mu- scum...read more

Product Description: This is a documented, capsuled, contemporary story of two outstanding Cherokee personalities. Nancy Ward was a Cherokee Chieftainess and Most Honored Woman of the Cherokee Nation. Her cousin, Dragging Canoe, was Cherokee-Chickamauga War Chief.

Product Description: Combining folklore and bits of history, this delightful book is a unique collection of information about Unicoi County. Historical facts include interesting sketches of people and places, with a nostalgic look back at the simple life...read more