Title: Flowing through time : a history of the lower Chattahoochee River /
Authors: Willoughby, Lynn, 1951-; Historic Chattahoochee Commission.; Columbus Museum (Columbus, Ga.)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Chattahoochee River History.; Chattahoochee River Valley History.
Abstract: This illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day. Written for the armchair historian and the scholar, the book provides the first comprehensive social, economic, and environmental history of this important Alabama-Georgia-Florida river. Numerous historic photographs and maps also bring this river's fascinating story to life.
Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The ancients -- The scramble for Muscogee -- Along the white frontier -- Land of cotton -- The Civil War years -- Moonlight and magnolias -- Workin' the river -- The business of steamboating -- River power -- Troubled waters -- Will the water last? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.