Bedfellows and Bedbugs: Stands on the Natchez Trace.

This essay discusses travel along the Natchez Trace during the antebellum period in U.S. history and the growth of stands, or homesteads, where travelers could find accommodation and food. A post road constructed in 1800 to connect Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, passing through land o...

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Published in:Southern Quarterly Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 7 - 27
Main Author: Guice, John D. W.
Format: Essay
Published: University of Southern Mississippi Fall2010
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        Mitchell, Samuel
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