Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838 by Amos J. Wright Jr.


Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838
Title : Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838
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ISBN : 0817383875
ISBN-10 : 9780817383879
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 261
Publication : First published June 4, 2003

This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location, descriptions, and (if any) movements. While publications dating back to 1901 have attempted to compile such a listing, none until now has so exhaustively harvested the 214 historic maps drawn between 1544, when Hernando de Soto's entourage first came through the southeastern territory, and 1846, when Indian removal to the Oklahoma Territory was complete.

Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838 Reviews

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    Access to info that's otherwise impossible for a layperson to find - 5 stars
    The organization of this book - 0 stars

    I love the intent of this book, but the author really needed help with organization. The fact that the unknown-to-modern-society indigenous towns in this book are in alphabetical order absolutely blows my mind! Alphabetical order only works when you know what it is you are looking for...

    No one knows the names of these towns, so putting them in alphabetical order helps no one. There is no index that would help you locate identity towns within a modern-day county, or by watershed, or (easily) by tribe. The two methods of organization offered are alphabetical and chronological. While I suppose there's could be someone who may come in with a specific date in mind, this just seems incredibly obscure and unhelpful to me.

    I feel like it's more likely that common people reading a book like this are trying to find more about the peoples whose land they are on, and therefore including a geography based method of organization makes far more sense. As it stands now, one has to read the entire book to learn about the towns in a given area.