dances for eels
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- Sep 22, 2011
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My brother showed me a copy of this today :Founding of the Cumberland Settlements by Doug DRake, Jack Masters and Bill Puryear and I've already ordered one tonight. It covers the settling of middle Tennessee and the detail is amazing. They show the location of old land grants, buffalo and game trails, Indian trails, salt licks and pioneer forts and stations overlayed on USGS maps; it's absolutely incredible. It gives biographies of early families, charts and maps that show the locations of known settler deaths, and what became of each of the signers of the Cumberland Compact. The paintings by David Wright are outstanding and my brother has an original on his wall at home. Anyway, it's relatively expensive ($90) but the amount of information is staggering. For Tennesseans, it covers about 11 counties, including all or parts of Davidson, Sumner, Robertson, Williamson, Montgomery, Smith, Cheatham, Trousdale, Wilson, Macon and Jackson.
