The Annotated Pickett's History of Alabama: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period [Hardcover]

Albert James Pickett (Author)
ALBERT JAMES PICKETT (1810-1858) was the author of the two-volume History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period, published in the 1850s.

James P. Pate (Editor)
Independent scholar JAMES P. PATE is an emeritus professor of history at the University of West Alabama, where he served as a department chair, dean, and vice president. He also served as a dean at Southeastern Oklahoma State, vice president at Northeastern State University, and campus dean at the University of Mississippi-Tupelo. He is a graduate of Delta State University and earned an MA and PhD from Mississippi State. He has previously edited When This Evil War is Over: The Correspondence of the Francis Family, 1860–1865, Cherokee Newspapers, 1828–1906, and The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines. His contributions to research, preservation, and archaeological investigations at the Fort Tombecbé/Fort Confederation complex led to the transfer of the significant eighteenth-century French-British-Spanish site to the University of West Alabama.

Albert James Pickett’s History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period first appeared in Montgomery bookstores in September 1851. The buyers of his two-volume work paid $3 and the demand caused Charleston publisher Walker and James to issue a second and third edition before year’s end. William Gilmore Simms, the South’s most prolific writer, referred to the publication as one of the prettiest specimens of book making ever done in America. Newspapers in Alabama and literary journals in New York, Charleston, and New Orleans commended Pickett for his absolutely enchanting fresh writing style, for using great care throughout his book,ls%