Sketches of Alabama : Being an Account of the Journey from Tuscaloosa to Blount Springs Through Jefferson County on the Old Stage Roads, Now First Published in Book Form.

By: Duffee, Mary GordonContributor(s): Brown, Virginia Pounds | Nabers, Jane PorterMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1970Copyright date: ©1970Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (109 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817382759Subject(s): Alabama -- Description and travel | Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950 | Duffee, Mary Gordon, -- 1843 or 4-1920 -- Travel -- AlabamaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sketches of Alabama : Being an Account of the Journey from Tuscaloosa to Blount Springs Through Jefferson County on the Old Stage Roads, Now First Published in Book FormDDC classification: 917.6178036 LOC classification: F332Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introductory essay -- 1. In which the writer travels from Tuscaloosa to Jonesboro -- 2. In which the writer visits Jonesboro -- 3. In which the writer travels from Jonesboro to Elyton -- 4. In which the writer visits Elyton -- 5. In which the writer travels from Elyton to Hagood's Crossroads -- 6. In which the writer visits Hagood's Crossroads and digresses on the Creek Indian War -- 7. In which the writer travels through the Turkey Creek vicinity towards Blount Springs -- 8. In which the writer recounts the coming of the railroads -- 9. In which the writer expounds on the founding of Birmingham and Colonel James R. Powell -- Footnotes to the introductory essay -- Footnotes to the Sketches -- Index.
Summary: Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introductory essay -- 1. In which the writer travels from Tuscaloosa to Jonesboro -- 2. In which the writer visits Jonesboro -- 3. In which the writer travels from Jonesboro to Elyton -- 4. In which the writer visits Elyton -- 5. In which the writer travels from Elyton to Hagood's Crossroads -- 6. In which the writer visits Hagood's Crossroads and digresses on the Creek Indian War -- 7. In which the writer travels through the Turkey Creek vicinity towards Blount Springs -- 8. In which the writer recounts the coming of the railroads -- 9. In which the writer expounds on the founding of Birmingham and Colonel James R. Powell -- Footnotes to the introductory essay -- Footnotes to the Sketches -- Index.

Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.

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