The hidden history of southeast Tennessee
By: Joe Guy
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596298552
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Stories from East Tennessee; title: The good boat adventure; title: Spencer Jarnagin : the "lost" senator; title: The governor's Bible; title: Lost settlement of Polk County; title: Hiking through the Old Dutch Settlement; title: Looking for De Soto's trail; title: pt. 2. Indians; title: The old soldier, friend of the Cherokee; title: Cherokees in Charlestown, 1759; title: Wilderness survival in eighteenth-century Tennessee : the James Smith story; title: The assassination of Jack Walker; title: The overbearing governor; title: pt. 3. Civil War; title: "They killed him in Goodsprings"; title: Where the travelers rested; title: Uncle Pat; title: "The Yanks have fortified the courthouse"; title: The price of war : the Van Dyke sons; title: Daphne's Thanksgiving; title: Forrest's battle at Calhoun; title: pt. 4. Strange happenings; title: A mausoleum, a legend, a school, and Angelina; title: Old steel, cradles, and graves; title: The grave robbers; title: Haunted Williamsburg; title: Dead man's ticket; title: Houses of the dead; title: The dead and the almost dead; title: pt. 5. Politics, small towns, and giant people; title: Etowah's doughboys; title: One street corner, a thousand stories; title: "Going to the store" in early Etowah; title: The Athens Academy; title: Indians, senators, and governors : the Forest Hill Academy; title: The underdogs : Cook High's 1933 basketball team; title: Miss Myrtle; title: The Campbell-Van Dyke graves; title: pt. 6. Holidays and traditions; title: George Burger's Christmas; title: No fake Christmas trees, beagles, and Mamaw's house; title: Cat heads for breakfast.