Treasury of Georgia Tales : Unusual, Interesting, and Little-Known Stories of Georgia

by Garrison, Webb B.

• ISBN13: 9781558538689
• ISBN10: 1558538682
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Table of Contents

Part One: High Adventure
John Wisdom Made Paul Revere Look Like a Sissy	13	(3)
Perilous Voyage to an Unknown Destination	16	(4)
Shotgun Totin' Dentist Was Pivotal at the O K Corral	20	(4)
Burke County Boy Gained Lasting Fame from a Knife	24	(4)
Freedom Fighter James W. Fannin Marched to His Death	28	(3)
Spanish Adventurer Offered Christianity for Gold	31	(4)
Dueling Grounds Saw Blue Blood Flow Like Water	35	(6)
Part Two: Women in Action
Cross-Eyed War Queen of Elbert County	41	(3)
Beautiful Widow's Problems Led to the Cotton Gin	44	(4)
Sophy Hopkey Was Crucial to the Start of the Methodist Movement	48	(4)
Slave Girl Triggered First Big North/South Split	52	(3)
Savannah Socialite Launched the Girl Scouts of America	55	(3)
Emily Harrison Saved a Forest for a City	58	(5)
Part Three: The Joy of Battle
Emma Sansom Pointed Out the Trail	63	(3)
Leonidas Polk Dispensed Holy Water on Bloody Ground	66	(3)
Oglethorpe's ``Indian Ways'' Stopped Spain	69	(3)
Future Emperor Learned Art of War at Savannah	72	(4)
Nashville's Father Bliemel Died at Jonesboro	76	(3)
For Once, Sherman Was a Gentleman	79	(6)
Part Four: Innocence and Guilt
Last Slaver Boasted He Couldn't Be Convicted	85	(3)
Runaway Thomas Sims Helped Shape the Nation's Destiny	88	(4)
Georgia Home of Songwriter Was a Log Jail	92	(5)
Vice-President Aaron Burr Hid from the Law on St. Simons	97	(2)
Claiming Innocence, Swiss Doctor Died for War Crimes	99	(4)
Manhunt Netted President Jefferson Davis	103	(6)
Part Five: Original Americans
First Land Pirate Was an Indian Princess	109	(4)
Chimneys Cracked in Athens When Shawnee Chief Stamped His Foot	113	(3)
Alexander McGillivray Got Even with Georgia	116	(3)
Last Confederate General to Surrender Was Stand Watie	119	(3)
Half-White Framed a Treaty That Became His Death Warrant	122	(3)
Congressman's Protege Chose to Live as a Cherokee	125	(6)
Part Six: The Fire of Genius
Wilbur Kurtz Came and Saw, and Atlanta Conquered	131	(3)
William Scarbrough Sent First Steamer across the Atlantic	134	(4)
Laughing Gas Becomes Serious Stuff	138	(3)
Heisman Guided Yellow Jackets to All-Time Record	141	(4)
``Blind Tom'' Bethune Awed Crowned Heads of Europe	145	(4)
Agricultural Agent from Indiana Built Delta Air Lines	149	(4)
To Beat the Law, Doc Pemberton Stirred Up a Substitute	153	(4)
Index	157