Before the Volunteer State : new thoughts on early Tennessee, 1540-1800 /
edited by Kristofer Ray.
- First edition.
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 230 pages :) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
The European invasion and the transformation of the Indians of Tennessee, 1540-1715 / Cherokees, empire, and the Tennessee corridor in the British imagination, 1670-1730 / "It seems like coming into our houses": challenges to Cherokee hunting grounds, 1750-1775 / Shawnee geography and the Tennessee corridor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Tennessee in the American Revolution: a reconsideration / Military families: kinship in the American Revolution / The state of Franklin: separatism, competition, and the legacy of Tennessee's first state, 1783-1789 / John Montgomery and the perils of American identity in the Mero District, 1780-1795 / Afterword: searching for John Sevier: myth, memory, and the history of early Tennessee history / Robbie Ethridge -- Kristofer Ray -- Tyler Boulware -- John P. Bowes -- Richard Gildrie -- Natalie Inman -- Kevin Barksdale -- David Britton -- Kevin Barksdale and Kristofer Ray.