History stories of Alabama / by Mrs. Pitt Lamar Matthews
1920009794Southern Publishing Company Dallas Texas. ©1920 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xv 343 p. incl. front. illus. plates ports. 20 cm. LCCN 20011644 OCLC 3247460 LC F327 .M44 ; blue cloth with lettering in black ; no dustjacket ; tear at top of spinAfter searching for more than a year for stories of heroes deeds of daring of interesting adventuresand worth-while happenings in the history of our state I came to feel that Alabama's history is so filled with glorious deeds magnificent sacrifices thrills and heart-throbs that the children of the state should be told what truly great men and women their forebears were." ; Contents : Jean Ortis / De Soto's Arrival in Alabama -- A Very Impolite Guest The Battle of Mauvilla Bienville -- The First White Settlement -- The Expedition That Failed French Massacred at Natchez Settlement -- The Girls Who Came to an Unknown Land The First Wives for the Colonists Twelve Ugly Ducklings Girls of the Chest -- The Emperor of Coweta How the French Made Friends with the Indians -- Game Losers Conditions During Early Settlement -- A Russian Princess An Early Romance at Wetumpka -- His Mother An Indian's Courage -- Princess Mary James Oglethorpe Comes to Alabama -- Stung Arm An Indian Princess Befriends the French -- Lachlan McGillivray English Traders Come Among the Indians -- Alexander McGillivray A Man Whose Power Affected the Nation -- The Heroine of Little River How the Tensaw Settlers were Saved -- The Camp Angel British Refugees Wander Through Ahibama Courage Wins Reward Paro Saves the Wanderers -- A Real Hero A Negro Saves the Lives of the Immigrants -- Little Tempey Ellis Tiny White Girl Rescued by "Old Milly" -- Isaac Heaton's Dogs Fort Sinquefield in the Greek War -- A Brave Indian Talladega Fort Saved by General Jackson -- The Canoe Fight Sam Dale Jere Austill and James Smith Stage a Great Fight -- Kindness That Came Back The Fort Mims Massacre -- The Red Eagle A Reproduction of Alexander Meek's Poem of the Creek War -- Nannawyah Indians are Warned of Their Removal to the West -- The Stranger Within Our Gates Aaron Burr's Capture --The Yazoo Fraud Early Settlers Come into Alabama --The One-Man Senate Alabama Becomes a Territory then a State -- The Vine and Olive Company French Refugees Settle Dcmopolis -- The Man Who Could Make Cow-Bells St. Stephen's Prosperous Days -- John Hunt's Town The Founding of Huntsville -- Andrew Dexter's Tract The Beginning of Montgomery -- Cedar Creek Furnace The Beginning of Iron-Making in Alabama -- A Vice-President of the United States Wm. Rufus King the Founder of Selma -- A Captain of Industry Daniel Pratt the Founder of Prattville -- La Fayette's Visit A French General the Friend of Amerioa -- Francis Scott Key's Mission to Alabama Trouble with the Indians -- The First Railroad in Alabama Experiences of Early Railroad Builders Osceola The Leader of the Creeks and the Seminoles -- William C. Travis Leader in the War for Texas Independence -- Billy Goold The Man Who Found Fortunes for Others -- Jefferson Davis Memories Recalled by Mrs. Mary Phelan Watt -- Supplies for Southern Soldiers The Ordnance Department of the Confederacy -- The Boy Artilleryman John Pelham -- Emma Sansom The Girl Who Showed General Forrest "The Lost Ford"-- A Story of Real Strategem General Streight Surrenders to General Forrest -- Fighting Joe Wheeler Hero of Two Wars -- The Flagship Tennessee A Naval Battle in Mobile Bay -- A King -of the High Seas Raphael Semmes Commander of the "Alabama" -- The David and Goliath of the Sea The First Torpedo Boat -- A Boy Hero Thomas Jones Shows His Courage -- Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction Days in Alabama -- What One Boy Made of Himself How James Pugh Became "The Patrick Henry of Alabama" -- The Birth of Birmingham How John T. Milner Laid the Foundation for the Great Town Difficulties of the Young Engineer The Trick that Didn't Work The Greatness of the Resources of "The Pittsburg of the South" etc ; scarce ; G <br/> <br/> Southern Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas., ©1920 hardcover
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