Before the Volunteer State
Subtitle: new thoughts on early Tennessee, 1540-1800
By: edited by Kristofer Ray
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781621901037
Subjects: History; Indians of North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The European invasion and the transformation of the Indians of Tennessee, 1540-1715 / Robbie Ethridge; title: Cherokees, empire, and the Tennessee corridor in the British imagination, 1670-1730 / Kristofer Ray; title: "It seems like coming into our houses": challenges to Cherokee hunting grounds, 1750-1775 / Tyler Boulware; title: Shawnee geography and the Tennessee corridor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John P. Bowes; title: Tennessee in the American Revolution: a reconsideration / Richard Gildrie; title: Military families: kinship in the American Revolution / Natalie Inman; title: The state of Franklin: separatism, competition, and the legacy of Tennessee's first state, 1783-1789 / Kevin Barksdale; title: John Montgomery and the perils of American identity in the Mero District, 1780-1795 / David Britton; title: Afterword: searching for John Sevier: myth, memory, and the history of early Tennessee history / Kevin Barksdale and Kristofer Ray.