2 options
The Founding of Alabama : Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County / Frances Cabaniss Roberts ; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Reidy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Frances C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Madison County (Ala.)--History.
- Madison County (Ala.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- The most thorough history of Alabama's Madison County region, widely available for the first time The 1956 dissertation by Frances Cabaniss Roberts is a classic text on Alabama history that continues to be cited by southern historians.Roberts was the first woman to earn a PhD from the University of Alabama's history department.
- Contents:
- Early beginnings in the Great Bend
- Thirst for land in the Bend
- To the land of milk and honey
- Boundaries and fee-simple land titles for old Madison County
- Justice and a seat of justice for Madison County
- Madison's expansionists and the expansion of Madison
- Madison County's political affairs: local, territorial, state, and national, 1810-1830
- Economic and social development of Madison County, 1810-1830
- Summary and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9273-4
- OCLC:
- 1133266247
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.