Footloose in Jacksonian America: Robert W. Scott and His Agrarian World

by Thomas D. Clark and Robert W. Scott

In the fall of 1829, young Robert Wilmot Scott rode away from Frankfort, Kentucky, on a trip that would take him through nine states. His journal entries about those travels present a vivid picture of Jacksonian America and of the prominent people of that era. Excellent pen portraits of James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, James Buchanan, Sam Houston, Edward Everett, John C. Calhoun, John Randolph, John Quincy Adams, and others show...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916968197
• ISBN13: 9780916968199
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Kentucky Historical Society
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher