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Title: Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847.Author: Albert James PickettPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering a...

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Excerpt from Eight Days in New-Orleans in February, 1847A few years after this period, a body of Jesuit priests and nuns arriving from France, gave a new impetus to the town. They made a most fortunate location, and their property greatly augmented in value But these pious adventurers were also to be disturbed. 'the Pope of Rome not only expelled that sect from Europe, but pursued them in American exile. Their property in New Orleans, va rious...

The Annotated Pickett's History of Alabama, And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period is a one-of-a-kind publication. It represents a major addition to the literature on the early settlement of Alabama and the Deep South. The NewSouth Books edition of the work is fully illustrated, and has been updated for contemporary readers and annotated for the first time. Significantly, the work is comprehensively indexed and c...

Excerpt from History of Alabama, Vol. 1 of 2: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, From the Earliest PeriodRecently been formed at Tuscaloosa, by some lite rary gentlemen and it gives me pleasure to re¿ect that the authors who may appear after my day, will not be subjected to the labor which it has been my lot to undergo. Believing that the historian ought to be the most conscientious of men, writing, as he does, not only for the prese...

Excerpt from Invasion of the Territory of Alabama, by One Thousand Spaniards, Under Ferdinand De Soto, in 1540The history of Alabama, from the early period of 1540 until the close of the year 1820, has been written by the undersigned. If now published, it would form two volumes of five hundred pages each. He is now engaged in revising it for publication. It has been a work of immense labor, and attended with considerable outlay in money. Ifhe ...

Excerpt from History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi: From the Earliest PeriodDe Soto during his boyhood from the lips of the oldest Indians. My library contains many old Spanish and. French maps, with the towns through which De Soto passed correctly laid down. The sites of manv of these are familiar to the present population. Besides all these, I have procured from England and France three journals of De Soto's expediti...

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Excerpt from History of Alabama, Vol. 2 of 2: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, From the Earliest Period WE mentioned, at the conclusion of the first volume of this work, that France had surrendered all of her North American possessions. Before finally doing so, however, she made a secret treaty with Spain, her ally, in which she ceded to that power the territory on the western side of the Mississippi, extending from the mouth of t...

Although it was published a century ago and suffers from the prejudices and myopia of a bygone era, Pickett's "History of Alabama" is still a rich survey of pre-20th-century Alabama life and culture, one that will assuredly provide valuable context for researchers with Alabama forebears. Two-thirds of its nearly 700 pages cover the history of the state prior to 1800, and the remainder extends only as far as 1819, the year of Alabama's statehoo...

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Excerpt from Invasion of the Territory of Alabama, by One Thousand Spaniards, Under Ferdinand De Soto, in 1540 The undersigned has not written the History of Alabama for pecuniary gain. His time and labor have been given voluntarily and freely to the public. All he asks is the return of the actual outlay, by the sale ofthe work. He feels assured that the people of Alabama, \\l10 possess a commendable state pride, Will favor the enterprise to ...