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Coveted Lands: Agriculture, Timber, Mining, And Transportation In Cherokee Country Before And After Removal, Vicki Bell Rozema
Coveted Lands: Agriculture, Timber, Mining, And Transportation In Cherokee Country Before And After Removal, Vicki Bell Rozema
Doctoral Dissertations
Covering a period from approximately 1779 to 1850, this dissertation studies natural resources and land use in Cherokee country before and after forced Cherokee removal from east of the Mississippi. As the market economy in the South grew in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Euro-Americans perceived the Cherokee Nation as an obstacle to commercial transportation and economic expansion. Southern leaders such as John C. Calhoun and Wilson Lumpkin planned to build canals and railroads through the Cherokee Nation. Disputes over saltpeter, gold, salt, and iron mining rights and the ownership of ferries, taverns, and turnpikes caused conflict. The …