| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Inside the Natchez Trace Collection: New Sources for Southern History. Ed. by Katherine J. Adams and Lewis L. Gould. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xii, 207 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8071-2363-3.)

In 1985 the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin acquired (at an undisclosed but supposedly considerable cost) a large archive of primary source documents centering on the frontier, antebellum, and Reconstruction periods in the history of Natchez, Mississippi, and the Natchez Trace area of the lower South. This collection, named by Texas the Natchez Trace Collection, as a whole has surprisingly few references to the Natchez Trace itself. Nonetheless, as it was organized and cataloged, excitement spread in the scholarly community over the prospect of researching in materials never before seen by scholars. The sheer volume of journals, letters, documents, printed materials, and business records was impressive, and scholars went to work eagerly as the materials became available. The center microfilmed portions of the collection, hosted public lectures about the collection's contents, and organized exhibitions to showcase it for the public. . . .

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