Alabama Footprints: Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories

by Donna R. Causey

From the time of the discovery of America through the time of De Soto's daring expedition, restless, resolute, and adventurous men crossed oceans in pursuit of their destiny.

Alabama Footprints - Exploration - is a collection of lost and forgotten stories about the people who discovered and initially settled in Alabama.

Stories include:

First Mardi Gras in America
The Mississippi Bubble Burst
Royalists settle in Alabama
Sophia McGillivray- A Remarkable Woman
The Federal Road – Alabama's First Interstate

132 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2015

About the author

"While studying old, fragile paper trails from the past, it dawned on me one day that I was creating my own legacy through the seemingly insignificant decisions I make each day. I hope my family will be proud of the decisions I have made."

Donna R. Causey is married and the mother of two sons. She currently lives in Alabama. After a long career in the public schools, she retired and followed her passion for historical writing. Causey has authored several Alabama, history, genealogy and historical fiction novels. She developed and owns two websites: (www.alabamapioneers.com) and (www.daysgoneby.me) and is cohost of a podcast: Alabama Grist MIll at:
http://alabamagristmill.libsyn.com/
Listen to it on Itunes and Spotify at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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For more information about Donna R Causey visit her on her Facebook pages
@alabamapioneers.com
@daysgonebyme
@ribbonoflove

and her Author page on Amazon
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Reviews

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was very glad to find this book. It points a light on a few details of Alabama history that could use more notice. The most interesting parts for me were the excerpts from, I'm assuming, Donna's ancestor's journal about traveling to Alabama. That part was why I bought the book. I would love to read more of that!

The rest of the book reads like the sort of haphazard regurgitation of previously published material that you might find in a high school student's history essay. The organization of the material doesn't make a whole lot of sense, as she cycles through key dates of Alabama history in pretty much every chapter, repeating information probably as she found it in her source material-other people's books.

This is the first book in her series, and she says she reads her reviews, so hopefully the others are better put together. Like I said, I was glad to find this book, but there are much better written sources out there for the same material-except for those journal entries. For me that's where the value in this book lies.

[Jeffrey Fuller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intriguing

In my latter years I have become more interested in Alabama history. I am happy to find the Alaba,a Footprints series. It gives me chills know that such rich history exists in the places I know so well.

[G Banyar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Curious about the past.

Very interesting i love all of the stories about the South and the people that made our state the great place it became.

[Marilyn Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing like history for a good read

I thank you for this book. I did not give it a five as I thought a few maps would have been a great help. The areas are so different to what we now know as our state and surrounding states. I understand this may be impossible, but just a thought. So now I am on to the next book in this collection.