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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French, Jr. Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King. Athens: University of Georgia Press, with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society. 2004. Pp. xv, 335. $29.95.
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| Horace King, an obscure American historical figure, is somewhat better known in Alabama and Georgia where he is remembered as the African American slave and freedman who built bridges. However, even those who have heard of King largely only know myths about him. This biography by John S. Lupold, a historian, and Thomas L. French, Jr., a landscape architect specializing in covered bridges, challenges many of those myths. |
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