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Author Duffee, Mary Gordon, 1843 or 1844-1920.

Title Sketches of Alabama : being an account of the journey from Tuscaloosa to Blount Springs through Jefferson County on the old stage roads, now first published in book form / prepared for the press, with introduction and notes, by Virginia Pounds Brown and Jane Porter Nabers.

Publication Info. University : University of Alabama Press, [1970]

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Description 1 online resource (96 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Based on a series of 59 articles originally published under the same title in the Weekly iron age (Birmingham, Ala.) from 1885 through 1887.
"Illustrated with advertisements from the Jones Valley Times of 1854."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introductory essay; 1. In which the writer travels from Tuscaloosa to Jonesboro; 2. In which the writer visits Jonesboro; 3. In which the writer travels from Jonesboro to Elyton; 4. In which the writer visits Elyton; 5. In which the writer travels from Elyton to Hagood's Crossroads; 6. In which the writer visits Hagood's Crossroads and digresses on the Creek Indian War; 7. In which the writer travels through the Turkey Creek vicinity towards Blount Springs; 8. In which the writer recounts the coming of the railroads.
Summary Novel, memoir, and anti-memoir, The Trouble with Being Born depicts the lives of Frances and Joe, husband and wife. Told in their own alternating voices, they recall their lives, separately and together, and the divergent trajectories of their origins and aspirations.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Jefferson County (Ala.) -- Description and travel.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Brown, Virginia Pounds.
Nabers, Jane Porter.
Added Title Weekly iron age.
Other Form: Print version: Duffee, Mary Gordon, 1844 or 4-1920. Sketches of Alabama. University : University of Alabama Press, [1970] 0817353119 9780817353117 (DLC) 74139830 (OCoLC)108958
ISBN 9780817382759 (electronic book)
0817382755 (electronic book)