New PDF release: John Sevier: Tennessee's First Hero

By Gordon T. Belt,Traci Nichols-Belt

A celebrated soldier, trendy baby-kisser and founder of the kingdom of Tennessee, John Sevier led an adventurous existence. He commanded a frontier defense force into conflict opposed to British Loyalists at Kings Mountain. He waged a continuing struggle opposed to the Cherokees in his attempt to say America's first frontier. He cast the kingdom of Franklin from the western lands of North Carolina and later grew to become Tennessee's first governor. Following his dying, Sevier's accomplishments pale from public reminiscence, yet years later, writers resurrected his picture via romanticized money owed of his exploits, depending seriously on people stories and memories from getting older pioneers. therefore, existence and legend intertwined. sign up for authors Gordon T. Belt and Traci Nichols-Belt as they research John Sevier's remarkable existence in the course of the lens of background and reminiscence, laying off new gentle in this impressive Tennessee figure.

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