William Lawson: A Scottish Rebel and Other Pioneer Families of Southern Appalachia

Bill Porter

Overmountain Press

Blending historical fact with fiction, the authors have combined novel with biography to tell this story of John Pelham Humphries and his claim to land in one of the largest oil fields in Texas. Seventeen years of research are distilled into this fascinating account about Spindletop - a place and an event that heralded the advent of the Petroleum Age. The book is enhanced with numerous photographs of the people and places that figure prominently in the story. Giving added value is an excellent collection of document reproductions, which testify to the thoroughness of the research. Nation- and world-wide, over twenty-five thousand people claim kinship to the Humphries line: cxpecting the mystery to be magically solved, expecting to find a secret escrow account for billions of dollars buried deep in a bank vault somewhere, and expecting to share equally in its distribution. Like the hardy pioneers who gave up everything to seek a pot of gold, a lost city, a silver mine, the Humphries family tirelessly pursues the world's greatest treasure hunt. A delight to read, it is a mystery that proves fact is truly stranger than fiction.

Heirs to Misfortune: In Search of the Pelham Humphries Legacy

Bradshaw, Steve

Duncan, Joyce

Literature & Fiction

Tall Tales of the Rails: On the Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio

J.L. Lonon

History of the First United Methodist Church of Johnson City, Tennessee 1865-1990

Bailey, William Perry Jr., M.D.

The Sun Will Shine Again: An Orphan Boy's Journey Through the Great Depression and the Big War

Conlee, Ralph Burton

Biographies & Memoirs

Safety - Courtesy - Service. This work is the definitive history of the first railroad to operate in the state of Georgia. Originating in Augusta, the line's terminus was set at a junction with the State Road, later known as the Western &amp; Atlantic Railroad, where the infant town of Marthasville (later named Atlanta) was building. The Railroad played a major role in the development of the state of Georgia and a substantial role in the affairs of South-ern railroading in the mid- to late nineteenth century. 
The history includes lull rosters for engines and passenger equipment; station lists for the main and branch lines, complete with the attributes of each stop; and brief histories of the subsidiary compa-nies. Anecdotal stories of the road add wonderful color to the text. Possibly best of all are the pho-tographs-over 360 of them. 
This unprecedented book about an extraordinary railroad will prove delightful for Georgia histori-ans and railfans and invaluable for any railroad modeler.

History of the Georgia Railroad

Hanson, Robert H.

Otey's journal: Being the account by James Hervey Otey, A.B., M.A., D.D., L.L.D., first bishop of the Tennessee Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal ... 1851 in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales

History

Otey, James Hervey

Europe

This work is a compilation of articles written by teachers during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to histories of early schools and community origins, the book contains a wealth of other informationfrom stories of Indians, hunting, and the Civil War, to life and customs of the pioneers in general. The names of many of Dickenson’s early residents also found their way into the book, either as early settlers in one of the communities or as teacher, student, or patron of one of the many one- and two-room schools.

School & Community History of Dickenson County Virginia

Reedy, Dennis

Americas

Book by Templeton, Steve, Cranor, Rosalind

Elvis Collectibles

Cranor, Rosalind

Templeton, Steve

The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee

Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee

Price, Charles Edwin

Community & Culture

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