Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding the Tennessee Corridor
Part One
Chapter 1. The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Indians of Tennessee, 1540–1715 / Robbie Ethridge
Chapter 2. Cherokees, Empire, and the Tennessee Corridor in the British Imagination, 1670–1730 / Kristofer Ray
Chapter 3. “ It seems like coming into our Houses”: Challenges to Cherokee Hunting Grounds, 1750–1775 / Tyler Boulware
Chapter 4. Shawnee Geography and the Tennessee Corridor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / John P. Bowes
Part Two
Chapter 5. Tennessee in the American Revolution: A Reconsideration / Richard Gildrie
Chapter 6. Military Families: Kinship in the American Revolution / Natalie Inman
Chapter 7. The State of Franklin: Separatism, Competition, and the Legacy of Tennessee’s First State, 1783–1789 / Kevin Barksdale
Chapter 8. John Montgomery and the Perils of American Identity in the Mero District, 1780–1795 / David Britton
Afterword: Searching for John Sevier: Myth, Memory, and the History of Early Tennessee History / Kevin Barksdale and Kristofer Ray
Contributors
Index