| The Creek Captives: Stories Contributor(s): Blackshear, Helen F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603060219 ISBN-13: 9781603060219 Publisher: NewSouth Books OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Creek Captives fictionalizes for young readers real events, people, and places from the era when Alabama and Georgia were the "wild west" of a new nation. Author Helen Blackshear tells the stories of the famous and infamous figures who peopled the old frontier in the early days of American independence. Taken from historical archives, these tales of Sam Dale, Alexander McGillivray, and William Weatherford, among others, will thrill young and old alike as fascinating history becomes real. Daring hunting exhibitions, bloodcurdling stagecoach ambushes, terrifying captures by rogue Creek sects, and survival by musket and hatchet make this pulse-pounding collection of young adult stories both fun to read and important to the understanding of the socio-political forces of change in pioneer days in the Southeast. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - South - East South Central (al, Ky, Ms, Tn) |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.43 lbs) 148 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Creek Captives fictionalizes for young readers real events, people, and places from the era when Alabama and Georgia were the "wild west" of a new nation. Author Helen Blackshear tells the stories of the famous and infamous figures who peopled the old frontier in the early days of American independence. Taken from historical archives, these tales of Sam Dale, Alexander McGillivray, and William Weatherford, among others, will thrill young and old alike as fascinating history becomes real. Daring hunting exhibitions, bloodcurdling stagecoach ambushes, terrifying captures by rogue Creek sects, and survival by musket and hatchet make this pulse-pounding collection of young adult stories both fun to read and important to the understanding of the sociopolitical forces of change in pioneer days in the Southeast. |
Contributor Bio(s): Blackshear, Helen: - Helen Friedman Blackshear served from 1995 to 1999 as Alabama's eighth poet laureate. A native and present resident of Tuscaloosa, she lived in Montgomery from 1934 to 2003. She has three daughters, eight grandchildren, and fourteen great-grandchildren. A graduate of Agnes Scott College, she also has an M.A. from the University of Alabama. She is the author of Mother Was a Rebel, Southern Smorgasbord, Creek Captives, Alabama Album, Silver Songs and From Peddler to Philanthropist: The Friedman Story. She also edited These I Would Keep, an anthology of poems by Alabama's first through ninth poet laureates. She has served as treasurer and vice-president of the Alabama Poetry Society and as president of the Alabama Writers' Conclave. She was Poet of the Year in 1986 and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Conclave in 1987. |