A Word on Words; 4009; Bill Puryear

from nashville studio way celebrating offers literature and ideas for more than three decades this is word on words with johnson ellen johnson bowen once again welcome to word on words welcome back our friend bill career and activist orrin an artist who paints an army of all john is here today is a collaborator on thoroughfare for freedom volume two it's the second atlas of the common sentiments and sunny isn't inundating or four real collectors item this book is it's a start working from how we got here the land we settled on the society we created features full color reproductions of some of the best historical orders and together we hope to share some of those with two bills like that about it six years you spent on these two books that document that dumb history of the land

and on and it strikes me as i read this book and brought back once more recognition that tennessee was that we have what was it in the land of the people that i could find that seemed to make such a difference i mean i you know we you can make a case that king's mountain was the decisive battle of the revolution not every historian would agree with that but but i asked as they can about him and reading which are written about me that well i'm one of them well the commanding general of the british forces and a new york thought so and so had teddy roosevelt and thomas jefferson and herbert hoover and now the british had a more or less wrapped up and the south in full or onto and made a big mistake and now it took on the tennis since they came over here to and

we didn't wait for them to get really went after him and we got him we were after and then we go and as you describe it it's the tories versus the patriots and they take any losses when the patriots a relatively light loss is one of the great values of this book her lists and there really was almost virtually every revolutionary tennessee and ever revolution or waters in who took up arms against the british of king's mountain they say in the book look if your ancestors not there that doesn't mean he wasn't the mountain the list may not include and everybody on lookin in there for a career and but one way to bring the mountain to talk a little bit about what it took to put together these

fascinating lives well that would involve a lot of research in other books new so secondary sources but we actually had established a database follows preplanned not only that we found an old family and graham had told you where it was when they came in middle tennessee so that's a direct connection between our revolutionary war land grant holder and the battle heats audience and i do think that it was a turning point i don't think the tennessee has gotten the great when we read about the revolutionary war would like cambridge and lexington and boston and her most places but it was thought here to end and assess it was one human rights battles of the revolution old volunteer with a british earl proxies maria took a mall goes in the creeks and those tribes that they were furnishing arms do

and so hot our existence to a very tenuous in those early years and you realize that the mystery of history infect tennessee could have gone away and join spying because they had three chords and a land mass in and the americans but for the courage of some people like amanda jackson and james robertson and their wisdom and diplomatic focus but it seems they were leaders in those early years but to put him in written about maybe as much as new england because it it really just for you know of dan nilsson is relatively easy to identify and follow a logic because the dollar became into jackson's life

but i had forgotten you know there's a great sculpture for memes did donaldson in embracing robertson and i had i had forgotten robson died victims of a minion attack as of right now somebody yell roberson isn't it has figured out the dallas and dies as a result of an attack and part of this book as the revolution as the revolutionary war ii deals with occupation of the area by the indian tribes and in the struggle for land that you document historically so well that was land that we literally ripped from the answers of the tribes in order to establish a new culture a try although in

dealing with the indians and dealing with with the land it self you've got in the back of the book one page after another of land plants how many acres rubio was and how much the cost of the land was and i had great fun in going back and identifying in davidson county places that at least i think i know about that day and it was like a game is like a game i don't seek an island and i'd love to but i thought quote in these come from harbin

have a deal to get access to these are not well in the north carolina records in and they are now michael sam's mr katz boats on the camera cavaney a tennessee ok and it's just a matter of song unfurling and the parma fortune as an engineer and he he did most of it added some other hand some the campus many were around when they get this land for ten cents an acre and couldn't legally sell it for two hundred and i mean for twenty pound of life so this was a two a north carolina dirt farmer this was their riches behind the fundraiser never say it if they're willing to take the chance at last to come here i looked at them that the amount that some of the some of the land values and the fluctuation in the violin and they would

go from a low to a high and then too low but i suppose that reflects economy and changing economy other times but i was interested to know how you documented almost a decade by decade the shift in the value of the land and and how as those years the indians were forced out and as we get our freedom from a british and an objection wages war and the new orleans square it takes the british invading army and i tried to go back to it was an exercise in huge huge news a pleasurable exercises to try to hike along those graves what happened to

make land values go up and then go down and they go up again and muslim fasting for you or who are working it was because it was a conclusion to an immense amount of research in bachman put in an excel spreadsheets but it went down because the extermination of the immigrants who came in and so people who want to buy immigrants wants solas wants to put much then after mick jagger after the threat from a chicken all these was eliminated you consider the land values go sailing up and as they are today you know you know journalists long time and started out as a police reporter and the end of like that fifth that i came across that career in the book that

listing criminal conduct the doctor the doctor in the police department and finding out that you know a lot is not change is a historian and you know who they were murder us all you know is it was a remarkable experience one for charges the doctor said we're listening in is a bison ranger to sleep that's out there is the quote from jefferson davis the nation that own needs the mouth in a city that's where we have to worry we have to be afraid to have to be fearful in the lunch room of the of how different it was in

the nation and he's talking about mccammon that's occupied by more than one country track and an end and indeed the value of the book is to realize as i say an intervention where we came from and how how we got here and you know it we came to be the nation the control of the mouth of the river but it might have gone differently oh it was so close to a wonderful man attacks in the french we just barely completed that jeffs knew noted that one for stroke of biden louisiana purchase and they try to go back on again so it could have gone in any other way in japan course of the early oscar gone away but it seems as though we will probably binge the blast that everything that happened in those days well you know the other thing that sort of comes

home to me is that as one of was those as courageous as those early conversations were there was a ruby streak that pop up and related quite often the land and in it you think about johnson hear our first years ago the thing about blonde territorial governor of will only add an e you know i mean you can make a case that that they should've been on the police list well they were doing in montana see jurisdiction promote carolla fences so it was tough to el rey about it the prosecution but say one thing on behalf of speculates that was the only game in town when mccain buying and selling land and i ever but it wasn't available it had to be making money because you couldn't make it raised coleman holds the coast and i want a farm store with can get on the river the

spanish when mckeown ah so if it was a legitimate occupation were people that had gotten my him that to get as much as you could and spencer but rather than sell as much as you could and so forth and for my deadline and then you know servers must know lucrative like beijing are going to come and serve their land that piece of it for you so there's a fee and you can as we know the money that was in james k polk family came to gaza's grandfather rulon jeffs that serving as subversive as for the pope's in the book and william his ongoing is there a north carolinian and not a son of the landowner many of the land almost never settled here and folks grass

will be on a map and the third book i'm going to die anyway and to their larger that's you made eleven so many books on andrew jackson and they involve anymore is them although norman's they involve is for confrontation with defiance of the year which is an end of a self confessed wedding store for you make jackson i mean you know does dealing with this book change your vision of a seven person where it doesn't all the reasons for the spasm jackson worked and i think i like him better at this distance and i wouldn't have but you've got to remember that we're not andrew jackson have banned

it would end of the mississippi river and alabama line because he clear of alabama mississippi and the florida of a spy alicia mejia creek indians and he cleared the spanish out in new orleans include the french for softness approval and he opened the way for commerce which was a lifeline basic job of it we had no way we couldn't ship goods across so whatever you may think about him he's like pat new name and i like him personally but he got the job done he did get the job done no doubt about their love they didn't like him personally much more beloved today than he was in his own day with vast numbers of people will come and there was a sense that let the john quincy adams tried to steal the president's involvement and black for those of you just joining us out onto her about thoroughfare it's a thoroughfare for freedom and this is the

second volume and umbrellas take a look at some of the wonderful artwork that becker writes this book and i'm just put the painting on the screen than you you do so would be our commentator here are this is daniel boone there's azhar cover painting this as the co owners but they live in is daniel boone leading the service for a common arab it's a magnificent huge bang and is featured in the yard come on monday a national monument and it's over two thousand home ball next one is well a new orleans see joe jackson on the right they're very common british charging up there and then hold on the land this was probably was the most decisive battles in american history maybe more than it would end some like that no doubt about

enemy wipe them out their lives based on archeological excavation of bled so forth this is a reproduction of what the fort looked like with exact lands and baucus and distances and scale and that's the road for marks for obama left that came close to it is the third fatal for him as a commoner well from a distance in see their holiday life is illustrated in that pencil is mourning illustration there is a piece of work even inside and no walls an agrarian society they're people and with so you see the cattle here i am a minute phone what about contraception carole king george a certain weight went

crazy but he knew he wanted mrs dole and you weren't this war he wouldn't so that we have a show to the deficit growing ryan democracy now shame yell and there this is the import more mrs king's mountain and this is where religion or a religion or a warrant this is where these farmers militia man from tennessee won over both as a chilean johnson here and get to the work you know entire british fort riley's the tories there were very few muscular torso this was american's funniest americans but this was the first in a series of battles that made the yorktown and cornwallis surrendered in you have to say that those who do have kids have to say that in that battle take resources where light british forces during losses

will very very end and when you say wipe out the british force some captains few years after i'd our the casualties thousand intensive care of the casualties have sixteen as well yeah almost a thousand and about six of those captives and most of them escaped solo and then we had the next picture it shows a temp amounts of the mississippi named ian travels through him here before history and before my main engine that could be a typical strain such as a test and springs of the ceremonious my image of emerged as a very sensitive ryan williamson him out that shows the slave listen to music and art we try to make the point in this book is to the

contributions that the african americans made there was immigrants and all they've been good for your message of this bid ended in deland they contributed equally as much to the settlement of the city and they would be listening to music business now well that's what intrigued me very much as general nathaniel greene addressing the past north carolina militia would just king's mountain by cynicism gilford courthouse and if you saw the movie patriot business at this depiction and these are all country boys and he sand boys just give me one shot and then you can retreat by how the engineers would look at that low boil must be about fourteen him right at the foot of the north carolina for a whole year handed looks like he's about to be six until his lips so they in the drawings and atheism is glistening

trudeau i'm going across there and you can just the terror that they must have felt the man who'd so mama know them and that this just help me welcome in that picture and going up against the strongest fighting force are the strongest fighting force it had defeated napoleon in this is paul hamas is on a common question for you but let's figure it is the end of the battle of campaigns which we want in and again we can catch and are all what about a hundred thousand and that took place in that that's john thompson on his horse but they get regular on and it was brutal and we would use one or was captured thomas jefferson is under noses another picture yes the iranians cross and they could be coming in

to melt and say to our attacker has the creeks and to them all that often did jamming in areas throughout aaron gorton book and soon after news of the voyage seemed to then uses an anecdote in there about two young boys with their brother on crutches of all the sons of mouth unions go away from the news all of that's only one of a number of documentation said you owe do with telling the story how tough it was to be a settler intimacy when in a drought last summer it's hard for us to imagine today but you ask about jackson they're not have to factor that and to the consideration know what jack's was done because he had been a panic he came and

handsome teenage so he would next poet going on among say that the rangers just felt that he knew that these people knew what had happened to them as himself anything unions have agreements because we detected service no twelve hour and jackson and then the train from west down then you know and and you even though aren't just today you can even find the stages of those if you look closely you can find the stages of love someone also think that wages to phone present jackson's result of the removal of don't even through on these two books now the gun to tell a story and not have the story of a pathway to freedom it seems to me after lueken that

they aren't reading the story and get the title is right on the market was the pathway to freedom how'd you get on the riots were the minute i'll yell when church one knows i remember the video format just that phrase to sleep and i think this example is you knew this background was i was going to look at it you don't time when obama plans to leave the body and three which is yet to come how all by the middle of next year to jump well but we're excited about it because of everything that we've talked about before leads to be beaupre which is the movement of the southwest i take those color for

southwest and as the mississippi opened up and this cotton became the money crop yeah this period to the southwest of us became it important to america's growth all in mexico you might say and so we're working on them working right now and beth miller lewis i'm sure questions a ride down and that a stray so ago and on the magistrate to let this fall with our fort above reproach for wanna bookmark as burma and so american we have pictures of the chickasaw trace him and so we're moving down and caught the country say and i think it's gonna be equally a great book we're gonna talk about would start with this battle and they could get which brought peace with the unions and then move forward to say about the group about some of the courtroom of massive bomb on

an expanded right of that intense history well i can't wait and i played the year i hope you come back thank you so much for coming to talk about today and i go into watching for no more than johnsen though i keep reading