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Book Review

Canada and the United States



John R. Finger. Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition. (A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiii, 382. $39.95.

This book is John R. Finger's contribution to Indiana University Press's "History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier" series edited by Walter Nugent and Malcolm Rohrbough. Finger's volume on Tennessee, like those on Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Wisconsin, is a synthetic overview of the frontier era in one state. Although Finger is a recognized scholar of Cherokee history, which allows him to include extensive material on Native Americans, this book contains little that is new to scholars of Appalachia or the trans-Appalachian West. The absence of footnotes or endnotes make it obvious that the targeted audiences are general readers or students in courses studying Tennessee state history. . . .


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