Title: Before the Volunteer State :
Authors: Ray, Kristofer,; Ray, Kristofer.
Date: 2014
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press,
Physical description: xxii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: The European invasion and the transformation of the Indians of Tennessee, 1540-1715 / Robbie Ethridge -- Cherokees, empire, and the Tennessee corridor in the British imagination, 1670-1730 / Kristofer Ray -- "It seems like coming into our houses": challenges to Cherokee hunting grounds, 1750-1775 / Tyler Boulware -- Shawnee geography and the Tennessee corridor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John P. Bowes -- Tennessee in the American Revolution: a reconsideration / Richard Gildrie -- Military families: kinship in the American Revolution / Natalie Inman -- The state of Franklin: separatism, competition, and the legacy of Tennessee's first state, 1783-1789 / Kevin Barksdale -- John Montgomery and the perils of American identity in the Mero District, 1780-1795 / David Britton -- Afterword: searching for John Sevier: myth, memory, and the history of early Tennessee history / Kevin Barksdale and Kristofer Ray.
Subject headings (LCSH): Indians of North America--Tennessee--History.; Tennessee--History--18th century.; Tennessee--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.