It's slightly rambling and a little hard to follow, but I was glad to read this book on an era in American history I knew little about. This is a valuable addition to the library of the serious history buff. The Natchez Trace Parkway you travel today is NOTHING like the Trace whose story unfolds in these pages. Very well researched, a lot can be learned without getting bored, or overwhelmed. They all had a role in this wild, and significant land. Sometimes hard to keep straight, there were pioneers, preachers, gamblers, generals, scoundrels, slaves, Indians, politicians, and speculators. The whole area is steeped in history, and this book accentuates the tales of happenings not only in Natchez, but along the entire Trace and the Southern USA as well. Very well researched, a lot can be learned without gett Picked this up at the visitor's center in Natchez. Picked this up at the visitor's center in Natchez. It's manicured and well-mapped now, with plenty of rest stops and picnic tables, but I'm certain there are still hidden spots where the Trace exists in its wilder form.more This spring my friend John and I drove the length of the Trace from Nashville to Madison, MS. They weren't just dry creek beds or sink holes but wide cuts in the earth as deep as we were tall.

I grew up near the Trace, so near in fact that my brothers and I often came upon sunken paths in the woods behind our house. It's manicured and well-mapped now, with plenty of rest stops and picnic tables, but I'm cer A surprisingly well-written and detailed account of the outlaw past of the Natchez Trace.

A surprisingly well-written and detailed account of the outlaw past of the Natchez Trace.

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