Dropped stitches in Tennessee history

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——IN——
TENNESSEE HISTORY.
——BY——
JOHN ALLISON.
1897: MARSHALL & BRUCE CO., NASHVILLE.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1897, By John Allison, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
DEDICATION.
To the Memory of My Mother, WHO, WHEN I WAS BUT A YOUTH, FIRST INTERESTED ME IN AND TAUGHT ME MUCH OF THE Early History OF THE PIONEERS OF MY NATIVE STATE.
PREFACE.
This little volume, as will appear to the reader, is not a history of anything nor of anybody, and is not so intended. The whole is simply an effort to put together in readable form some facts in the very earliest history of Tennessee not hitherto fully shown, if even mentioned.