Trammel's Trace : the first road to Texas from the north /
Trammel's Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas. Trammel's Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersecte...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A M University Press,
[2016]
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016] |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Red River Valley books ;
no. 5 |
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Table of Contents:
- From somewhere to nowhere
- Through the wilds
- The Trammells of Kentucky and Tennessee
- 1800-1812: Boundaries under pressure
- 1813-1819: Couriers of the forest
- 1820-1826: Gone to Texas and back
- 1826-1836: A great movement of many nations
- 1836-1844: Another new nation for Texas
- 1845-1856: The old smuggler retires
- 1856-1880: The patriarch has passed