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The Very Worst Road: Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847 Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Jeffrey C. Benton (Editor)


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The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the "Old Federal Road," more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River. These accounts deal candidly with the rather remarkable array of impediments that faced travelers in Alabama in its first decades as a state, and they describe with wonder, interest, and, frequently with some disgust, the road, the inns, the travelling companions, and the few and raw communities they encountered as they made their way, often with difficulty, through what seemed to many of them uncharted wilderness. The Very Worst Road was originally published by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission in 1998.

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  • Title The Very Worst Road: Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847
  • Author Jeffrey C. Benton (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 170
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Alabama Press
  • Date 2009-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780817355500 / 0817355502
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.56 x 0.5 in (21.67 x 14.12 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress subjects Alabama - History - 1819-1950, Georgia - History - 1775-1865
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008045818
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.610

About the author

Col. Jeffrey C. Benton USAF (ret.) holds the MPS degree from Auburn University and an MA from the University of North Carolina. His other books include They Served Here: 33 Maxwell Men, A Sense of Place: Montgomery's Architectural Heritage, and Air Force Officer's Guide.
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