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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1. Verfasser: Read, William A. (William Alexander), 1869-1962
Weitere Verfasser: McMillan, James B., 1907-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1984.
Ausgabe:Rev. ed. with a foreword, appendix, and index /
Schriftenreihe:Library Alabama Classics.
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Zusammenfassung: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, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.
Beschreibung:"Originally published in 1937 as no. 29 of Louisiana State University studies"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 107 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0585295514
9780585295510
9780817384722
0817384723