Deep Roots: The Story of a Place and Its People

by Anne Butler

Book Overview

Imagine the presumably pacifist Quaker physician surviving the wilds of frontier Louisiana only to see his descendants marry into families of battle-hardened warriors. One survived being bayoneted nine times in the Revolutionary War; one was tomahawked to death in the Indian Wars, and his heart was eaten by the redskins to carry on his bravery; brothers served as Andrew Jackson's aides-de-camp at the Battle of New Orleans; and one was a seventeen-year-old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796023027
• ISBN13: 9781796023022
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"