Indian place names in Alabama /

What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians,...

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Main Author: Read, William A. 1869-1962
Other Authors: McMillan, James B., 1907-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1984.
Edition:Rev. ed. with a foreword, appendix, and index /
Series:Library Alabama Classics.
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