"FROM FRONTIER TO PLANTATION IN TENNESSEE" is the classic book by UVa professor of history Thomas Perkins Abernethy about the formative years of Tennessee and its early political leadership. Now republished in a quality paperback without underlines and distracting stray marks NOTE: only in the "Quid Pro Books" edition, showing the colorful cover], it has been Digitally Remastered to restore missing parts of words, cleaner text, and more consistently legible footnotes.

Abernethy studied a time when Tennessee was the original Wild West and a laboratory for U.S. expansion and...