If you appreciate old fashioned values and true Americana, get this book. Truly unique and is capturing a part of our histroy that is being lost to development.

This book has won a Southern Books Competition Award of Merit in Book Design from the Southeastern Library Association. This award is given in recognition of the book's aesthetic appeal and design and for fine craftsmanship in its printing and binding. Congratulations to authors Joe Cook and Monica Cook, designer John Langston, printer Pacifica Communications, and the University of Alabama Press.

This is an excellent book which covers its subject more thoroughly and beautifully than any book I have ever seen about this part of the country. It is extremely well written, and the photography is outstanding. Anyone who is interested in the preservation of our enviroment, especially our valuable waterways, should read this book.

Adventures in Chattahoochee Hollar is a delightful tale of the adventures and misadventures of Travis, a young fox that stays in one scrape after another! Ms. Foxleys lighthearted, Christian approach to every day problems of the modern family is excellent reading for young and old alike! The youngsters will enjoy the fox family antics while the adults will relate to the lessons and morals taught thru the trials that the fox family experience.

The book is fast paced and kept me on the edge of my seat until I finished each chapter! The reading is truly and "experience"! I would recommend this book to anyone!

Chattahoochee by Rich Haney is the best Civil War novel I've read and I've read many, including Cold Mountain, Red Badge of Courage, Killer Angels, etc. Chattahoochee has three lovely but eclectic characters -- a Mississippi woman, her baby girl and a Union officer. The young woman and little girl, displaced by the Civil War after the husband and father goes off to fight and die for the South, barely survive. That changes when the little girl, precocious at age three, has a clairvoyant dream about a Union soldier in the last year of the four-year war. The day after she tells her mother of the dream, minutely describing the soldier, he saves them from a raging storm and a firefight between Rebels and Confederates. The soldier comes to worship the child and love the woman, with equal passion; he accepts a dangerous assignment at war's end in exchange for the army's agreeing to send the child and mother to his farm in Meade County, Kentucky. The precious little girl, in Kentucky, has another clairvoyant dream about the soldier, on the other side of the war, that she adores. She dreams that he is shot in the head at the Battle of Girard on the Chattahoochee River where the river separates Columbus, Georgia, from Phenix City, Alabama. Telegrams from Columbus to Kentucky confirm the dream and the soldier is in a coma, not expected to live. The little girl has a third clairvoyant dream, when he comes out of the coma after four days.

This book is unique in its subject matter. It helps today's reader understand the importance of the entire cotton production, trade, and manufacture.

Ms. Willoughby writes that the cotton trade's impact rippled over many other segments of the national economy and she quotes from another writer that this fiber has been called the most significant ingredient in the economic life of the whole nation [United States] before 1860.

The book describes the connection of cotton to currency and to banking and shows in detail how the banking system was vastly different from our present financial institutions.

The author stresses that much of the cotton business depended on the reputaions of individual men from the planter to the final purchaser and she gives short biographical descriptions of many key individuals.

Transportation facilities were vital to the moving of the cotton from the farm or plantation to the mill. The book describes the importance of vessels and shipping in every phase of the process and also the part that the early railroads played in making important changes in the entire ecomomy.

I would give this book a 10.

i've never met mr. winn (but i would like that)but i feel confident in saying that here is an author that has done more than just research...he has reached into the soul of our souther creek ancestors and shared that with decendants like myself.from the stories and legends i was priviledged to hear from my grandfather and clan uncle,wm. winn has filled in the blanks. his reflections on creek daily life is as i heard in my youth.for those seeking arealistic and pasionate documentation of the real people who lived in those first blessed times before the invasion and then showed their courage and spirit to overcome those horrendous days of removal. thank you mr. winn,i will continue to suggest your book. i was a partiscipant at columbus college southeastern celerbration many years. sorry i missed meeting you. i would like to read your views on who the creek people (decendants) are today and their roll and contributions here in the southeast. thank you chief bobby johns bearheart

This book provides an eyewitness account of the events which were going on in the southeastern states, and probably over the rest of the country, during the period when the Indian people were being degraded and their culture destoyed and replaced by the European. It paints a picture, through the eyes of literate travelers, of the wonderful wilderness that was the American south as it gave way to settlement and the plow. This vivid picture cannot be told as well by any historian as it was by those who lived it and told it in their own words as they traveled through this primitive and sometimes dangerous land.

If you've ever dreamed of a model railroad of the CHV, like me, this book will be an invaluable companion in that endeavor. Lots of great pictures, from the earliest steam power and passenger equipment, to the last months of the CHV in 1992. I would have liked to see some color pictures. Especially of the beautiful "Cotton for the looms of West point" box car paint scheme. Other than that, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the CHV.

An excellent reference on the CV! I have been looking forpictures like these for years. I remember the yellow engines and yardfull of boxcars in front of Cohen's that I saw as a kid. If I ever get around to building a model railroad of the CV, the pictures in this book and the track drawings available at the Archives will be my complete guide.

If you like RR's, and you're from the Valley, you will definitely like this book.

An excellent reference for anyone planning activities along or near the Chattahoochee. Only shortcoming is general lack of river section and lake maps. The extensive narrative descriptions of noteworthy sites and interesting areas are great and the provided directions help, but some more maps would be very beneficial.

This book would be a joke if it were not so sadly typical of what passes for historic analysis on the part of academia today. The reader has to go no further than the name Benning to appreicate the complete disregard the author has for an unbiased analysis of history and how committed he is to promulgating the generally Marxist world view harbored by so many in his profession.

The casual readear would assume that Henry Lewis Benning was precisely the schemeing politician/lawyer hypocritically playing the race card to advance his own interests while happily seeing "poor" men marching off to the killing fields which Williams portrays him to be (this being the author's central thesis). Nowhere in the text is it pointed out, in what purports to be a Civil War history of this region, that Benning served for four years in the Army of Northern Virginia,leading a brigade in some of the most violent battles of that war. He was wounded at Knoxville yet returned to serve in the trenches at Petersburg and ended his career in the CSA at Appomatox. An even handed analysis of why men such as Benning sacrificed so much would have been very enlightening. But Williams, of course, has no time for such trivialities. He has a mission to accomplish, a career to establish. He has no time for truth.

David tells a story of real people; with real problems; desparately trying to survive in a world turned upside down. This work is full of truth. Outlining the fact that merely 1/3 of the South's population really supported the War. And hinting at what the outcome might have been; had the local gentry fostered a policy of inclusion, rather than that of slavery, segregation, and the culture of the elite. This is a MUST read for anyone interested in the cultural evolution of the New South. And an eye opening journey into our own past; redefining what it truely means to be "Southern".

This book contradicts the widely held belief that the South's lack of industry and men were the root of Confederate defeat during the American Civil War. Williams constructs a vivid and compelling theory of socio-economic conflicts within the South that ultimately led to its downfall. The author uses a variety of primary sources, including personal correspondence that humanizes the Civil War. The book is the product of extensive research and is entertaining and well-written. I recommend it to anyone interested in the Civil War or Southern history in general. It is thought-provoking.