Inside the Natchez Trace Collection: New Sources for Southern History

by Lewis L. Gould (Editor)

Historians describe the contents and suggest research possibilities of the collection, which was acquired by the Center for American History at the University of Austin, Texas in 1986. Covering the territory of Natchez Mississippi and the Natchez Trace the road from there to Nashville, Tennessee the collection contains plantation records, bank correspondence, songbooks, family letters, and other sources illuminating the period from the 1780s to the 1830s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

207 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

Lewis Ludlow Gould is Eugene C. Barker Professor Emeritus in American History at the University of Texas in Austin. Gould earned an A.B. from Brown University in 1961, and an M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) from Yale University.