This first book-length, annotated edition of Gaines' "Reminiscences" provides a fascinating glimpse into the early history of the Mississippi-Alabama Territory and antebellum Alabama.

The two sections of the "Reminiscences "of George Strother Gaines form one of the most important primary sources on the early history of
Alabama and Mississippi. The "Reminiscences" cover the years 1805 to 1843, during which time Gaines served as assistant factor and then factor of the Choctaw trading house (1805-18), cashier of Tombeckbee Bank in St. Stephens (1818-22), a merchant in Demopolis...