Title Flowing through time : a history of the lower Chattahoochee River / Lynn Willoughby

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Chattahoochee Valley legacy series Chattahoochee Valley legacy series Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The ancients -- The scramble for Muscogee -- Along the white frontier -- A land of cotton -- The Civil War years -- Moonlight and magnolias -- Workin' the river -- The business of steamboating -- River power -- Troubled waters -- Will the water last? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This handsome, illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day. In highly accessible, energetic prose, Lynn Willoughby takes readers down the Lower Chattahoochee River and through the centuries. On this journey, the author begins by examining the first encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and the international contest for control of the region in the 17th and 19th centuries. Throughout the book pays particular att Notes "Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and The Columbus Museum." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject HISTORY -- State & Local. SUBJECT Chattahoochee River -- History Chattahoochee River Valley -- History Subject United States -- Chattahoochee River United States -- Chattahoochee River Valley Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Historic Chattahoochee Commission Columbus Museum (Columbus, Ga.) ISBN 0585164169 9780585164168 9780817386344 0817386343

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