The Muscle Shoals: First Frontier of These United States

The Muscle Shoals: First Frontier of these United States is an in-depth study of a unique place in the wilds of American history. A tumbling stretch of rough water on the Tennessee River first populated by the Cherokee and Chickasaw people the Muscle Shoals would become a magnet for settlement and tradeas well as the object of schemes and dreams speculation plans and politics.Beginning some 50 years before Alabamas statehood author Alvin Rosenbaum lays out the history of the Muscle Shoals from the American Revolution on up to the present day. Along the way he not only tells a compelling storyhe reveals the Muscle Shoals to be Americas true first frontier.