(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Some men realized that a profit could be made moving the Native-Americans to the Indian Territory. Companies…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The removal of the Choctaws in 1831 became a model for other tribes to be moved to…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The moving of a whole nation of people from one state to another would be a massive…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Establishing “the Indian Territory in the West, was the largest undertaking a local government ever attempted by…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Napoleon was conquering nations in Europe, a rumor of a possible transfer…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The Chickasaws had long been allied with the Choctaws, and there is a tradition that many centuries…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The Cherokee Indians, once a powerful nation inhabiting the fine country from the Ohio to the Tennessee…
Patron+ member story (Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Confrontation: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 4) Tecumseh Causes Earthquake The Native American Chief Tecumseh arrived in Alabama in 1811…
Patron+ member story -This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com as…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Missionaries in the Cherokee Nation banned together in support of the Cherokees, and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Survey of land for gold lottery “On the first Monday of February 1831,…
CAPTAIN ALECK or ELICK BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY CREEK CHIEF (ca. 1715 - after 1768) Lower Alabama The few general facts of the early life…
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory Patron+ member story -This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement:…
Patron+ member story -This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) available at Amazon.com as…
Aaron Smith born (1720 – 1776) and his brother, Captain John Carraway Smith fought in the American Revolution and were captured and held at…
[This transcription is from a book written ca. 1870 and includes many places of "Indian towns in Coosa County" and names of people who…
Note from Donna Causey: Everything written below is an exact transcription (with possible misspellings) from the From Cahawba Democrat (Cahaba, Alabama) February 1, 1840, so it was…
LEGEND OF COOSA During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
Lewis' Tavern at Fort Bainbridge Peter A. Brannon was a pharmacist chemist, 1900-1910. He spent the remainder of his career with the Alabama Department…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her…
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