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Splendid land, splendid people : the Chickasaw Indians to removal / James R. Atkinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817383374
  • 0817383379
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Splendid land, splendid people.DDC classification:
  • 976.004/973 21
LOC classification:
  • E99.C55 A75 2004
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Contents:
Land of the bones -- Down a long road -- The long road narrows -- The road has no fork -- The road lengthens -- A better road traveled -- A road unexpected -- The strange road ends -- A short but dangerous road -- The war road ends -- The road West begins -- The road West.
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Summary: Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called ""splendid and fertile"" by French governor Bienville at the time they were being coveted by early European settlers. The people were also termed ""splendid"" and described by documents of the 1700s as ""tall, well made, and of an unparalleled courage. ... The men have regular features, well shaped and neatly dressed; they a.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-341) and index.

Land of the bones -- Down a long road -- The long road narrows -- The road has no fork -- The road lengthens -- A better road traveled -- A road unexpected -- The strange road ends -- A short but dangerous road -- The war road ends -- The road West begins -- The road West.

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Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called ""splendid and fertile"" by French governor Bienville at the time they were being coveted by early European settlers. The people were also termed ""splendid"" and described by documents of the 1700s as ""tall, well made, and of an unparalleled courage. ... The men have regular features, well shaped and neatly dressed; they a.

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