3801 Green Hills Village Drive
Nashville, Tennessee 37215

P. M. Terrell will discuss her new book "River Passage." A harrowing story of the Donelson Party as they migrated westward to Fort Nashborough in 1779 and 1780. A four week trip took more than four months through Indian Territory at the height of the Chickamauga Indian Wars. Some of the settlers were killed, captured and some wounded. Some battling disease, small pox, frostbite, and near starvation. Who died, who was captured, and who lived to tell...

The Nashville Government Metropolitan Archives has admitted the original manuscript into their Archives for future historians and researchers!

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Added by Nashville Public Library on August 31, 2009