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Orig. pub. New York 1888. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2015. (ii), xvi, 344 pp., map, index In his trilogy about the men who settled the Old Southwest, the author develops the thesis that these men, under the leadership of John Sevier, Isaac Shelby, and James Robertson, not only planted a civilization beyond the Alleghenies but exerted an important influence in shaping the ultimate destinies of this country. Two of these men, Sevier and Shelby, during the Revolution helped thwart the British plan to envelop and crush the Southern Colonies and then helped turn the tide of the Revolution at the Battle of King's Mountain. Acting together after the Revolution, the three men frustrated Spain's design to weaken the Union by creating a separate republic between the Allegheny Mountains and the Mississippi River. Had that plan been successful, it would have kept the vast region beyond the Mississippi a Spanish province. This work is the third and concluding volume of Gilmore's trilogy about… Read More

xiii, 11-905 pp., index, 109 illus. Contents: Armies of Tennessee and Northern Virginia; Mississippi Officers, Organizations and Men; Conditions in Mississippi After the War; Reconstruction Continued; Democrats in Control; John M. Stone's Last Term as Governor; A New Generation; Eight Construction Years; A Century of Statehood; Mississippi in the World War; State Affairs, 1920-1924; Mississippi in Congress; The Judiciary; Education; Industry; Transportation; Banks, Banking and State Finance; Mississippi's Higher Activities; Mississippi Press; Slavery in Mississippi; Racial Influences; and Counties of Mississippi.

xxi, 23-933 pp., index, 141 illus. Contents: Physical Features of Mississippi; Aborigines of Mississippi; Legends, Myths and Eloquence of Mississippi Indians; Spanish Explorers; French Explorers; French Dominion; British Dominion; Spanish Dominion; Sargent Administration, 1798-1801; Administration of W.C.C. Claiborne; Williams and Mead Administrations, 1805-1809; David Holmes, Last Territorial Governor (1809-1817); Statehood; Leading Figures in the State's Early History; Expansion and Inflation; Under the Constitution of 1832; Continued Development; Mississippi in the War with Mexico; Sectional Issues in Mississippi; Mississippi Resists Coercion; Last Confederate Administration; and Mississippi in the War for Southern Independence.

700 pp., index, 125 illus. Biographical information on the following individuals is contained in Volume III: Adams, M.T.; Albriton, J.L; Alexander, J.A.; Alford, W.B.; Allen, A.A.; Allen, B.B.; Allen, J.B.; Allen, J.M.; Allen, P.W.; Allen, W.T.; Alvis, A.H.; Amacker, O.H.; Anderson, W.D.; Armstrong, E.C.; Arnold, J.M.; Backstrom, J.G.; Ball, R.A.; Barbee, J.W.Jr.; Barrett, W.O.; Barron, I.H.; Baugh, W.M.; Beall, B.S.; Beams, D.E.; Belhaven College; Bennett, G.G.; Bennett, J.D.; Bigham, Claudia M.T.; Bingham, D.L.; Bishop, D.H.; Bland, H.O.; Boggess, J.E.; Bondurant, A.L.; Boothe, J.B.; Boozer, A.I.; Bourgeois, A.E.A.; Boyett, J.R.; Boyett, W.G.; Brannon, G.W.; Brewer, W.C.; Bridges, L.C.; Bright, I.B.; Brister, B.E.; Britton, E.H.; Broom, S.C.; Brown, G.L.; Brown, J.N.; Brown, J.T.; Brown, R.L.; Brown, T.J.; Bryan, H.M; Buchanan, W.F.; Buckley, W.C.; Bunch, J.H.; Burkett, O.R.; Bush, M.P.; Butts, E.S.; Campbell, R.B.; Carpenter, W.A.; Carter, H.R.; Carter, J.P.; Cashin, J.M.; Caughey, R.H.;… Read More

708 pp., index, 125 illus. Biographical information on the following individuals is contained in Volume IV: Abernethy, H.B.; Aby, S.H.; Aderholdt, T.S.; Aldridge, F.M.; Alexander, J.P.; Alexander, G.B.; Alexander, H.N.; All Saints College; Allen, Arthur; Allen, J.F.; Allen, J.T.; Allen, T.D..; Anderson, E.A.; Anderson, R.B.; Andrews, F.H.; Armstrong, T.C.; Arnold, G.L.; Arrington, J.H.; Ashley, W.F.; Aycock, W.J.; Backstrom, J.W.; Bailey, C.K.; Bailey, J.W.; Bailey, P.G.; Baird, R.W.; Ballard, E.E.; Barnett, T.J.; Barr, T.P.; Barron, J.O.; Bartran, D.W.; Baskin, W.E.; Bates, C.L.; Batson, W.C.; Baucum, T.A.; Baylis, R.J.; Beech, T.R.; Bell, J.W.; Bennett, G.R.; Bennett, J.O.; Berry, P.W.; Biggs, W.M.; Birdsong, T.B.; Bishop, R.J.; Bitterman, C.H.; Bledsoe, O.F.,III; Blethen, B.J.; Block, F.J.; Block, Louise B.; Blocker, Milton S.,Sr.; Blount, W.N.; Boland, Alice E.; Boland, W.C.; Boswell, Henry; Bouton, C.E.; Boydstun, R.W.; Boykin, T.H.; Braden, W.H.; Bradford, J.W.; Brand, R.F.; Brand, Thomas;… Read More

Orig. pub. Birmingham 1900. Reprinted 1975, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2013. 773 pp., illus., index Pickett's history, one of the most valuable works on the history of the Southern country, is an account of the territory of Alabama prior to its admission as a state with later chapters containing many biographical sketches of men prominent in the later developments of the commonwealth. The Annals by Owen, historical facts in outline fashion, continue that history from statehood in 1819 to 1900. Alabama was settled by the Spanish, French, and British during the colonial period. These early settlers immediately encountered native Indians and one of the strengths of this work is its treatment of the Indians of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana including the Mobilians, Chatots, Thomez, Tensas, Chocktaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and others. Chapters deal with the French and Spanish in Alabama and Mississippi; the establishment of the Louisiana Territory; the Jesuit presence in Louisiana; conflicts… Read More

Orig. pub. Chicago & Jackson 1925. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2013. The set Available by volume The result of years of laborious research by the gifted director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, this four-volume work was written to satisfy the need for a definitive narrative history based on original sources of information. Volumes I and II contain the historical narrative, beginning with the physical features of Mississippi, a description of the Indians, the European exploration, and early colonization. Chapters describe territorial administrations, statehood, leading figures in the state's early history, expansion, the war with Mexico, the War Between the States, Reconstruction, development into the twentieth century, Mississippi in World War I, education, industry, transportation, banks and finance, religion, the press, racial matters, and the counties of Mississippi. Volumes III and IV contain together over 1400 pages of biographical information on leading… Read More

Orig. pub. Jackson 1880. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2011. vi, xxiii, 591 pp., illus., new intro., new index This classic work by "the Father of Mississippi History" is considered by the Mississippi Historical Society to be the best of the early histories. Claiborne, a congressman, newspaper editor, and member of a family which played an important part in the affairs of the state, used as sources original manuscripts, newspapers, books, government records, personal reminiscences of prominent men, and his own personal observations. Contents include a narrative history of Mississippi from the earliest European explorations of the area and the establishment of the earliest settlements, through the creation of the Territory in 1797 and admission into the Union as a state in 1817. Mississippi Indians, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Biloxi, Natchez, Cherokee, Creek, and Yazoo tribes receive considerable mention. Biographies of prominent early Mississippians are an important feature of the… Read More