| John Horry Dent: South Carolina Aristocrat on the Alabama Frontier First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Mathis, Ray (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817351167 ISBN-13: 9780817351168 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 78010693 |
| Series: Library of Alabama Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.08" W x 9.16" (0.95 lbs) 267 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Taken from Dent's journals, this book explores the world of this wealthy planter and landholder.. In 1837, when he came, to the newly opened Alabama frontier with his young wife and her 35 slaves, he had the building of an agrarian dynasty in mind, but his ambition was thwarted by the Civil War. |