Item #27304 The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace. American Trail Series, Jonathan Daniels.

The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with some chips missing from the extremities. This volume in the Trail series documents the history of the Trace--a trail that Mississippi flatboat crews created as a return route from Natchez through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee to Nashville. Great men traveled this route including Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, and Meriwether Lewis who mysteriously died on the Trace. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Hernando de Soto and Abraham Lincoln all play a role in the history of this American trail. Item #27304

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