General James Robertson, Father of Tennessee

by Thomas Edwin Matthews

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Nashville, TN: Parthenon Press, c1934 . First edition. 8vo. 588 pp. Illustrated from a photograph, a painting, a family, a coat-of-arms, etc., plates. Robertson 1742-1814 , a Virginia native, accompanied Daniel Boone on his third expedition across the Alleghanies in 1759, participated in the Regulator movement in North Carolina, settled in Watauga shortly before the Revolution, and fought against the Indians there; with John Donelson founded Nashville in

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