Look Away Dixieland : A Carpetbagger's Great-Grandson Travels Highway 84 in Search of the Shack-up-on-Cinder-Blocks, Confederate-Flag-Waving, Squirrel-Hunting, Boiled-Peanuts, Deep-Drawl, Don't-Stop-the-Car-Here South /
As a boy, James Twitchell heard stories about his ancestors in Louisiana and even played with his great-grandfatherAEs Civil War sword, but he never appreciated the state and the events that influenced a pivotal chapter in his family history. His great-grandfather, Marshall Harvey Twitchell, a carpe...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge, La. :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : deep in the heart of Dixie
- My great-grandfather
- March across Georgia
- Sweet (almost) home Alabama
- Mississippi, the most southern place on earth
- Louisiana gumbo
- The Red River Valley : what really happened.