Cotton Was King: Franklin - Colbert

by Rickey Butch Walker

Book Overview

In, "Cotton Was King Franklin-Colbert Counties" Rickey Butch Walker gives a wonderful account of Chickasaw Chief George Colbert as a cotton planter and the role of the Chickasaw Colbert's prior to the first white planters who moved with their slaves to claim the fertile lands of the Tennessee River Valley. After the Indian claims to the land were abolished by the 1816 treaty. The United States government transferred land titles to white settlers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949711080
• ISBN13: 9781949711080
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Bluewater Publications
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.3"