SURRENDER OF WEATHERFORD By William Gates Orr,1 of Okolona, Miss. (Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) Okolona, Miss., Feby. 22, 1893. Mr. H. S. Halbert,…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) By 1836, most of the willing Native-Americans had been removed to the land in the west, and…
(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: Banished Volume 8) The Chickasaws had long been allied with the Choctaws, and there is a tradition that many centuries…
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: Banished Volume 8) The Cherokee Indians, once a powerful nation inhabiting the fine country from the Ohio to the Tennessee…
A Ruse Saved Immigrants Lives While Traveling Through Indian Territory This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten…
(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 Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Despite all efforts by the federal government, few Native-Americans, except for the Choctaws,…
[This transcription is from a book written ca. 1870 and includes many places of "Indian towns in Coosa County" and names of people who…
(Margaret Eades was the wife of Jeremiah Austill of the Legendary Canoe Fight. She, like her husband was an early pioneers of Alabama. In…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) First news reports indicated that the move to Indian Territory was going well from the following letter…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) After Colonel Crowell was cleared, General Gaines continued to visit and negotiate with…
The greed for gold was a driving force in the settlement of Georgia and northern Alabama. See more below the ad. (Excerpt from ALABAMA…
LEGEND OF COOSA During the 1930s, Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and…
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