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9781558537903

Amazing Tennessee : Fascinating Facts, Entertaining Tales, Bizarre Happenings, and Historical Oddities about the Volunteer State

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  • ISBN13:

    9781558537903

  • ISBN10:

    1558537902

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-10-19
  • Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $12.99

Summary

Amazing Tennessee offers a rare glimpse into unusual people and events in Tennessee's 200-year history. Reading like the Volunteer State's own version of Ripley's Believe It or Not, this book explores hundreds of incredible stories, facts, and tidbits of human interest.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Preface vi
Acknowledgments vii
Truly Bizarre Events and Notorious Tennesseans
1(20)
Politics and Transportation
21(22)
Before the War
43(16)
Famous Tennesseans
59(20)
From the Hills of East Tennessee
79(16)
Religion and Utopian Communities
95(10)
Sports
105(16)
The Civil War in Tennessee
121(16)
Wheelers and Dealers
137(22)
The Sound of Tennessee
159(30)
Flora, Fauna, and Natural Phenomena
189(18)
Speech, Food, and Fascinating Cultural Tidbits
207(20)
Unusual Grave and Burial-Site Stories
227(9)
Virtual Tennessee 236(4)
Index 240

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