Rivers of History ：Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama

Publication subTitle ：Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama

Author： Harvey H. Jackson

Publisher： University of Alabama Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9780817390273

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780817307714

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780817307714

Subject： K History and Geography

Keyword： Rivers -- Alabama -- History., River life -- Alabama -- History., Alabama -- History, Local., Coosa River (Ga. and Ala.) -- History., Tallapoosa River (Ga. and Ala.) -- History., Cahaba River (Ala.) -- History., Alabama River (Ala.) -- History.

Language： ENG

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Description

Four streams make up the Alabama River system, the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. Together they flow for more than 900 miles, through some of the most historic regions of the state. This book looks at the way these streams have shaped the lives of the people who lived along them, and how, in turn, people have used the rivers to their own ends. This is the story of the people of the Alabama River system: the Indians, traders, steamboatmen, passengers, slaves, loggers, deadheaders, divers, river rats, fishermen, industrial giants, factory workers, business boosters, environmentalists, and those who simply love the rivers because of something that seems to have been a part of them from the first time they saw the water flowing. This is a book for and about these people. They, and the rivers, are the main characters in the story.

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