Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

“A well-written, nicely comprehensive, and inclusive social history of Alabama before and immediately after statehood.”— H-AmIndian Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming America’s twenty-second state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama’s Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South . Dupre’s vivid narrative begins when Hernando de Soto first led hundreds of armed Europeans into the region during the fall