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5. Maxwell, Thomas. TUSKALOOSA; THE ORIGIN OF ITS NAME, ITS HISTORY, ETC. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE ALABAMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY...JULY 1, 1876.
[Tuskaloosa]: Printed at the Office of the Tuskaloosa Gazette, [1876] 86 pp., map (DeSoto's Route from Tampa Bay to the Mississippi

River). First edition. Original printed wrappers, removed from bound volume of pamphlets. A very good copy. This scarce work deals largely with DeSoto's expedition from Florida through Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It also treats of the French on Dauphin Island, the war with the Chickasaws, and other aspects of eighteenth and early nineteenth century local history. Includes twelve reasons why Tuskaloosa is the correct spelling. HOWES M-447. OWENS (ALABAMA) p.1245.
$ 1250.00

6. Persons, John C. THE AWAKENED SOUTH...
Montogomery, Ala., 1947. [10] pp.

By Major General John C. Persons Before the Twenty-Fourth Annual Dinner Birmingham Traffic and Transportation Club, Incorporated, Monday Evening, February 17, 1947 Hotel Tutwiler, Birmingham, Ala. Third printing. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. Persons was President of the First National Bank of Birmingham and wartime trainer and commander of the famous 31st (Dixie) Division.
$ 35.00

7. Troy, Alexander. IRELAND RESPONSE TO A TOAST AT THE BANQUET OF THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY DE SOTO HOTEL, SAVANNAH, GA. MARCH 17, 1905
BY ALEXANDER TROY, OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA. Montogomery: Woodruff Co., 1905. 10 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers. Sewn as issued. A near fine copy. A previously unrecorded item. Not in WORLDCAT, OCLC, etc.
$ 75.00

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