A biography of Alabama s first Senator, this book is also the fascinating story of Southern frontier life as portrayed in contemporary letters and documents. When Madison County, Alabama, was still wilderness, Walker trekked across the mountains from Georgia with his bride, Matilda Pope, his slaves, and all his household possessions, to build a plantation near Huntsville.Here he began his extraordinary political career: member of the first territorial legislature; speaker of the house in the second; U.S. territorial judge; president of Alabama s Constitutional Convention; and when...
A biography of Alabama s first Senator, this book is also the fascinating story of Southern frontier life as portrayed in contemporary letters and...
"Bailey's account is sharply focused on Murphy's public life and thought [and] the result is a well-researched, balanced, straightforward narrative that will serve as the standard authority." -"American Historical Review"
"Bailey's account is sharply focused on Murphy's public life and thought [and] the result is a well-researched, balanced, straightforward narrative th...
