Touring Tennessee: A Postcard Panorama, 1898-1955

by Ridley Wills II

In Touring Tennessee , Ridley Wills II recaptures the romance of travel by presenting the best from his collection of more than thirteen thousand Tennessee postcards. With more than six hundred images from the Volunteer State’s colorful past, Touring Tennessee captures the cultural spirit of a golden era of American correspondence and engages readers with amusing commentary, history, and insight concerning the rhythm of life in early twentieth-century Tennessee.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

William Ridley Wills II was an American author and historian, who authored 34 historical and biographical books as of 2024. He received the Tennessee History Book Award in 1991 for his first book, The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation and Stud. He was president of the Tennessee Historical Society and in 2016, was given an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The University of the South. He was an executive of a company founded by his grandfather, the National Life and Accident Insurance Company and was on the boards of trust of Vanderbilt University and Montgomery Bell Academy, a prep school for boys in Nashville.