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Author Jackson, Harvey H

Title Rivers of history : life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama / Harvey H. Jackson III
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Once There Were Rivers -- 1. The Alabama Invaded; 2. Englishmen, Indians, and Americans; 3. The War for the Alabama; 4. Settling the Alabama; 5. The Age of the Alabama: Life along the River; 6. The Age of the Alabama: Life on the River; 7. The Orline St. John; 8. Alabama's Last Frontier: The Coosa and the Tallapoosa; 9. The Alabama in Transition; 10. The Rivers at War; 11. The War Comes to an End; the Coosa Comes of Age; 12. End of the Golden Age; 13. Putting Loafing Streams to Work; 14. Hard Times, Better Times
15. Reviving the Rivers16. Fencing the River with Smokestacks; Epilogue: Pissing in the Rain Barrel -- Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293) and index
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Subject Rivers -- Alabama -- History
River life -- Alabama -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
River life
Rivers
SUBJECT Alabama -- History, Local
Coosa River (Ga. and Ala.) -- History
Tallapoosa River (Ga. and Ala.) -- History
Cahaba River (Ala.) -- History
Alabama River (Ala.) -- History
Subject Alabama
Alabama -- Alabama River
Alabama -- Cahaba River
United States -- Coosa River
United States -- Tallapoosa River
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94032334
ISBN 0585242763
9780585242767
9780817390273
0817390278