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  • Alcock, Donald Gordon.  A Study in Continuity: Maury County, Tennessee, 1850-1870.  Los Angeles: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1985.

 

  • Alford, Jane Wallace, ed.  Revolutionary War Patriots of Marshall County, Tennessee.  Lewisburg: Webb Printing Co., 1976.  

 

  • Altom, Bennie Lou Hook.  “Elizabeth Barnhill and the Texian Wolf Hunt.”a  Historic Maury 34:3 (1998): 98-103.

 

  • Anderson, Victoria S.  Social and Economic Conditions of Small Farmers in Antebellum and Postbellum Coffee County, Tennessee. Unpublished Master's Thesis, West Georgia College, 1995.

 

  • Armistead, George H., Jr.  "The Void Provision of a President's Will."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 15 (1956): 136-140.

 

 

 

 

  • Barbee, John D.  Navigation and River Improvements in Middle Tennessee, 1807-1834.  Nashville: Unpublished Master's Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1934.

 

 

  • Baxter, Nathaniel.  "Reminiscences."  American Historical Magazine 8 (1903): 262-270.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Berhman, Carol H.  James K. Polk.  Lerner Publications, 2005.  

 

  • Black, Patti C.  The Natchez Trace.  Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1985.

 

 

  • Bradley, Thomas Bibb.  Address of Wm. Wirt Henry: Before the Scotch-Irish Congress, at Columbia, Tennessee, May 9, 1889. Nashville: Christian Advocate, 1852.

 

  • Brestrup, Craig.  "On the Natchez Trace."  Southern Humanities Review 25 (1991): 23-38.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Buchannan, Patrick J.  "Jimmy Polk's War."  National Interest 56 (1999):  97-105.  

 

  • Burt, Jesse C., ed. "Editor Eastman Writes James K. Polk."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 39 (1967): 103-117.

 

  • Byrnes, Mark Eaton.  James K. Polk.  Santa Barbara:  ABC-Clio, 2001.

 

 

 

  • Chandler, Walter.  "Centenary of James K. Polk and His Administration."  West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 3 (1949): 27-38.

 

 

  • Chubley, George W.  "Manchester: From Aboriginal Time Until about 1840."a  Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 1:2 (1970): 9-42.

 

 

  • Cook, Jerry Wayne.  "Amos Balch Explores Bedford County in 1784."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 11:1 (1985): 12-16.

 

  • Cook, Jerry Wayne.  "Some Early Settlers of the 18th Civil District [Bedford County]."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 3:3 (1977): 74-77.

 

 

 

  • Cornelius, Joe.  "African American Education in Maury County from the Slavery Era to the Civil War."a  Historic Maury 38:3 (2002): 103-111.

 

  • Cross, Paul R.  "Bedford County's Influence on National Politics in the Jackson Era."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 14:1 (1988): 38-42.

 

  • Cross, Paul R.  "The Jackson Era [in Bedford County]."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 14:1 (1988): 6-16.

 

 

  • Crutchfield, James A.  Timeless Tennesseans.  Huntsville: Alabama: Strode Publishers, 1994.

 

 

  • Cutler, Wayne, ed.  North for Union: John Appleton's Journal of a Tour to New England Made by President Polk in June and July 1847.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1986.

 

 

 

  • Dooley, Jim Cory.  "James K. Polk: An Unique President."a Historic Maury 31:4 (1995): 137-138.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  "Walker's Loss and Kelly's Gain: A Black History Mystery."a  Historic Maury 38:1 (2002): 5-6.

 

 

 

 

  • Elder, Betty Doak.  A Special House: The Story of the James K. Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee.  N.P., 1980.

 

 

  • Enfield, Gertrude Dixon, ed.  "Early Settlement in Maury County: The Letters of Christopher Houston."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 18 (1959): 54-68.

 

  • Everett, Robert B.  "James K. Polk and the Election of 1844 in Tennessee."  West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 16 (1962): 5-28.

 

  • Farrell, Colleen.  "The Homes of James K. Polk."a  Historic Maury 41:2 (2005): 111-117.

 

  • Ferguson, Raymond.  "James K. Polk."a  Franklin County Historical Review 23:1 (1992): 31-36.

 

  • Folmsbee, Stanley J.  "The Origins of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 6 (1933): 81-104.

 

  • Folmsbee, Stanley J.  "The Turnpike Phase of Tennessee's Internal Improvement System of 1836-1838."  Journal of Southern History 3 (1937): 453-477.

 

  • The Friendship of James Knox Polk and Gideon Johnson Pillow. Columbia: Clifton Place, 1986.

 

  • Gales, Andrea J., and Stephan M. Pusey.  "If Logs Could Talk: Researching the Boyhood Home of James K. Polk."a  Historic Maury 41:2 (2005): 100-110.

 

  • Ganier, Albert.  "The Wildlife Met by Tennessee's First Settlers." Migrant 44:1 (1973): 58-72.

 

  • Garrett, Jill Knight.  War of 1812 Soldiers of Maury County, Tennessee.  Columbia:  Jane Knox Chapter, DAR, 1975.

 

 

  • Goodpasture, Albert V.  "The Boyhood of President Polk." Tennessee Historical Magazine 7 (1921): 36-50.

 

 

  • Gracy, Mary Irene.  Economic Structure of Maury County from 1840-1860.  Nashville: Unpublished Master's Thesis, George Peabody College, 1938.

 

  • Graebner, Norman A.  "James K. Polk's Wartime Expansion Policy."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 23 (1951): 32-45.

 

  • Graebner, Norman A.  "Polk, Politics and Oregon."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers  24 (1952): 11-25.

 

  • Graebner, Norman A.  "James K. Polk:  A Study in Federal Patronage."  Mississippi Valley Historical Review 38 (1953): 613-632.

 

 

 

  • Guild, Jo C.  Old Times in Tennessee.  Nashville:  Travel, Eastman & Howell, 1878.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Harmon, Lisa.  "The First Bridge Across the Duck River."a Historic Maury 24:1-4 (1988): 60-61.  

 

  • Harris, J. George.  Polk Campaign Biography.a  Knoxville: Tennessee President's Trust, 1990.

 

  • Hatcher, Anne.  "David Lamb--A Soldier of the War of 1812."a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 8:1 (1982): 22.

 

  • Hawkins,  Fred Lee.  "George Barker, Jr., Revolutionary Soldier/Maury Pioneer."a  Historic Maury 26:2 (1990):  56-61.  

 

  • Hay, Thomas Robinson.  "Who is James K. Polk?"  Tennessee Historical Magazine 7 (1921): 235-242.

 

 

 

 

  • Henry, Robert S.  "West by South."  Journal of Southern History 24:1 (1958): 3-15.  

 

  • Hickman, George H. The Life and Public Services of the Honorable James K. Polk with a Compendium of His Speeches on Various Public Measures; Also a Sketch of the Life of the Honorable George Mifflin Dallas.  Baltimore: Hickman, 1844.

 

 

 

  • Holloway, Laura C.  "President Polk's Lady."a  Historic Maury 35:3 (1999): 82-87.

 

  • Holtzapple, John C.  "James Knox Polk: Upward, Westward, Inward."a  Historic Maury 31:2 (1995): 47-50.

 

  • Hooten, Jimmy.  "Bedford County: Stepping Stone into the West."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 20:3 (1994): 83-85.

 

 

  • Hoyt, Edwin Palmer.  James Knox Polk.  Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1965.  

 

 

 

 

  • Jenkins, John S.  James Knox Polk and a History of His Administration:  Embracing the Annexation of Texas, the Difficulties with Mexico, the Settlement of the Oregon Question, and Other Important Events.a  Buffalo: J.E. Beardsely, 1850.  

 

  • Jennings, Marjorie.  The Development of Highways in Tennessee to 1840.  Nashville: Unpublished Master's Thesis, George Peabody College, 1928.

 

 

 

  • Jolley, Robert L.  Archaeological Investigations at the Clifton Place Plantation Privy, Maury County, Tennessee.  Knoxville: Tennessee Anthropological Association Miscellaneous Papers no. 9, 1983.

 

  • Junkin, Patricia.  "Politics in Tennessee, 1834 to 1847."a  Historic Maury 33:4 (1997): 136-144.

 

 

  • Kaplan, Carol Farrar.  "Polkiana:  The Gracious Character of Sarah Polk."a  Historic Maury 26:3 (1990): 90.

 

  • King, Duane H.  "Lessons in Cherokee Ethnology from the Captivity of Joseph Brown, 1788-1789."  Journal of Cherokee Studies 2:2 (1977): 208-229.

 

 

  • Learned, H. Barrett.  "The Sequence of Appointments to Polk's Original Cabinet: A Study in Chronology, 1844-1845."  American Historical Review 30 (1924-1925): 76-83.

 

  • Ledford, Delmus.  James K. Polk and the Mexican War: A Survey of Changing Interpretations.  Knoxville: Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1962.

 

 

 

  • "Letters and Diary of George W. Polk Family."a  Historic Maury 22:1-4 (1986): 1-29; 23:1-4 (1987): 1-28.  

 

  • Lightfoot, Marise Parrish.  Let the Drums Roll:  Veterans and Patriots of the Revolutionary War Who Settled in Maury County, Tennessee.a  Columbia:  Maury County Historical Society, 1976.

 

  • Lomask, Milton.  This Slender Reed:  A Life of James K. Polk. New York:  Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1966.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Marsh, Helen Crawford, and Timothy Richard Marsh.  Soldiers of the Revolution in Bedford County, Tennessee.  Easley: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1989.

 

  • Marsh, Timothy R.  Shelbyville 1810: The Beginning. Shelbyville: Self-published, 1992.

 

 

 

  • McCoy, Charles Allan.  Polk and the Presidency. Austin:  University of Texas Press, 1960.

 

  • McDonald, Kenneth M.  Milling in Middle Tennessee, 1780-1860.  Nashville: Unpublished Master's Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1939.

 

  • McKinney, Mrs. Robert L.  The Ancestral Home of James K. Polk.a  Nashville: James K. Polk Memorial Association, 1958.

 

  • Merk, Frederick.  "Presidential Fevers."  Mississippi Valley Historical Review 47:1 (1960): 3-33.  

 

 

  • Mooney, Chase C.  Slavery in Tennessee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.

 

  • Moore, Powell.  "James K. Polk and Tennessee Politics, 1839-1841."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 9 (1937): 31-52.

 

  • Moore, Powell.  "James K. Polk and the Immortal Thirteen."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 11 (1939): 20-33.

 

  • Moore, Powell.  "James K. Polk: Tennessee Politician." Journal of Southern History 17 (1951): 493-516.

 

  • Moran, Nathan A.  "A Refugee from Justice: Isham Harris and the End of Confederate State Government in Tennessee.”  Memphis: Unpublished Conference Paper, Tennessee Historians Conference, September 17, 2005.

 

 

  • Morrell, Martha McBride.  Young Hickory:  The Life and Times of James K. Polk.  New York:  E.P. Dutton, 1949.

 

 

  • Nelson, Anson.  Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk. New York: A.D.F. Randolph, 1892.

 

  • Nivens, Allan, ed.  Polk:  The Diary of a President--1841-1849, Covering the Mexican War, the Acquisition of Oregon, and the Conquest of California and the Southwest.  New York: Longmans, 1929.  

 

  • Owsley, Frank.  "The Economic Structure of Rural Tennessee, 1850-1860."  Journal of Southern History 8 (1942): 161-182.

 

  • Owsley, Harriet C., ed.  "William Eakins's Memoirs." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 23 (1964): 269-278.  

 

  • Parker, Carese M., ed.  The Polk Family:  A Study of the Past; A Guide for the Future.  N.P., N.D.

 

  • Parks, Joseph H., ed.  "Letters from James K. Polk to Alfred O.P. Nicholson, 1835-1849."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 3 (1944): 67-80.

 

  • Parks, Joseph H., ed.  "Letters from James K. Polk to Samuel Laughlin, 1835-1844."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 18 (1946): 146-167.

 

 

 

  • Peterson, Barbara Bennett.  Sarah Childress Polk: First Lady of Tennessee and the Nation.  Nova Science Publishers, 2002.  

 

  • Phelps, Dawson A., and John T. Willett.  "Iron Works on the Natchez Trace."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 12 (1953): 309-322.

 

  • Pillow, Gideon J.  "Address of Major General Gideon J. Pillow Delivered Before the Maury Agricultural and Mechanical Society: At the Annual Fair, October 24th, 1855."a Columbia: Democratic Herald, 1855.

 

  • Pillow, Gideon J.  Letters from General Gideon J. Pillow, to the People of Tennessee, and in Reply to General Hitchcock.a  Nashville: G.C. Torbett & Co., 1857.

 

  • Pillow, Gideon J.  The Purpose of Life, Its Objects and Pursuits, and Its Duties and Responsibilities:  An Address Delivered before the Agatheridan and Erosophian Societies of the University of Nashville.a Nashville: Cameron & Fall, 1856.

 

  • Pillow, Gideon J.  Speech of General Gideon J. Pillow: Delivered at the Mass Meeting of the Democracy, near Columbia, Tennessee, on the 13th of July, 1844, on the Annexation of Texas.a Columbia: C.J. Dickerson, 1844.

 

  • The Polk Family: A Study of the Past, a Guide for the Future.  Columbia: James K. Polk Memorial Association, 1983.

 

 

  • Polk, Sally H.  "The Diary of Sally H. Polk."a  Historic Maury 23:1-4 (1987):  28-39.  

 

  • Price, Thomas.  "William H. Polk, the Lion of Washington."a  Historic Maury 41:2 (2005): 118-125.

 

 

 

 

  • Putnam, Albigence Waldo.  History of Middle Tennessee.  Nashville: N.P., 1859.

 

  • Quaife, Milo Milton, ed.  The Diary of James K. Polk. 4 vols.  Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1910.

 

 

  • Quin, Richard.  Ashwood, the Pillows, the Polks. Murfreesboro: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Middle Tennessee State University, 1992.

 

 

  • Report of the Committee of Ways and Means on the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the Counties of Hickman and Dickson in the State of Tennessee.a Washington D.C.: R.C. Weightman, 1815.

 

  • Report on the Establishment of an Observatory, Near the Town of Columbia, Tennessee.a Columbia: Mitchell & Rainey, Printers, Intelligencer Office, 1849.

 

  • Robbins, R.P., Jr.  "The Story of a Single Slave."a Historic Maury 34:2 (1998): 57-58.

 

 

  • Rowles, W.P.  Life and Character of Captain William B. Allen of Lawrence County, Tennessee, Who Fell at the Storming of Monterey, on the 21st of September 1846; With an Appendix Containing a Number of his Essays and Speeches.  Columbia: J.J. McDaniel, 1953.

 

 

  • Sawyer, Susan.  "Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady." More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women. Helena: Two Dot Publishing, 2000, 29-37.

 

 

 

 

  • Sellers, Charles G.  "Colonel Ezekiel Polk: Pioneer and Patriarch."  William and Mary Quarterly 10 (1953): 80-93.

 

  • Sellers, Charles G.  The Early Career of James K. Polk, 1759-1839.  Chapel Hill: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1950.

 

  • Sellers, Charles G.  James K. Polk: The Jacksonian, 1795-1843.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1957.

 

  • Sellers, Charles G.  James K. Polk: The Continentalist, 1843-1846.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1966.

 

  • Sellers, Charles G.  "James K. Polk's Political Apprenticeship."  East Tennessee Historical Society Papers 25 (1953): 37-53.

 

  • Sellers, Charles G.  "Jim Polk Goes to Chapel Hill." North Carolina Historical Review 29 (1952): 189-203.

 

  • Siegenthaler, John.  James K. Polk.  New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.  

 

  • Sioussant, St. George, L., ed.  "Letters of James K. Polk to Cave Johnson, 1843-1848."  Tennessee Historical Magazine 1 (1915): 209-256.

 

  • Sioussant, St. George, L., ed.  "Letters of James K. Polk to Andrew Jackson Donelson, 1833-1848." Tennessee Historical Magazine 3 (1917): 51-73.

 

 

  • Smith, Dwight L.  "An Antebellum Boyhood: Samuel Escue Tillman's Fascination with Corn, Bulls, and Deer." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 47:3 (1989) 142-152.

 

  • Smith, Dwight L.  "An Antebellum Boyhood: The School Days of Samuel Escue Tillman."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 46:3 (1987) 148-156.

 

  • Smith, Dwight L.  "Impressment, Occupation, Wars End and Emancipation: Samuel E. Tillman's Account of Seesaw, Tennessee." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 49:3 (1990): 177-187.

 

 

  • Smothers, Marion B.  "Tennesseans Participation in the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1845."  West Tennessee Historical Society Papers 33 (1979): 5-28.

 

 

  • Stewart, Guy Harry.  History and Bibliography of Middle Tennessee Newspapers, 1799-1876. Urbana-Champaign: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois, 1957.

 

 

  • Streets, David H.  "The Natchez Trace."a  Historic Maury 24:1-4 (1988):  52-56.

 

  • Symonds, Craig.  "The Failure of America's Indian Policy on the Southwestern Frontier, 1785-1793." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 35:1 (1976): 29-45.

 

  • Taylor, James C.  Franklin County, Tennessee and Settlers in the Early 1800s.a N.P., 1991.

 

  • Tennessee: Her Manufactures and Internal Improvements.  DeBows Commercial Review 13 (1852): 156-166.

 

 

  • Thweatt, John H.  "The James K. Polk Papers." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 33:1 (1974): 93-98.

 

  • Tibbits, Allison Davis.  James K. Polk.   New York: Enslow Publishers, 1999.  

 

  • Trickley, Katherine Shelburne.  "Young Hickory and Sarah."  Daughters of the Revolution Magazine 108:5 (1974): 430-434.  

 

  • Tullahoma, 1851.a  Tullahoma: Historic Preservation of Tullahoma, 1986.

 

  • U.S. Congress, House Committee on Ways & Means.  Report of the Committee of Ways & Means, on the Position of Sundry Inhabitants of the Counties of Hickman and Dickson, in the State of Tennessee. Washington, D.C.: Roger C. Weightman, 1815.

 

 

  • Walker, Nancy Wooten.  Out of a Clear Blue Sky: Tennessee's First Ladies and Their Husbands.a Cleveland: N.P., 1971.

 

  • Wallace, Sarah Agnes, ed.  "Letters of Mrs. James K. Polk to Her Husband."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11 (1952): 180-191; 282-288.

 

  • Wallen, Josephine Neal.  "From the Halls of Montezuma to the Hills of Coffee County."a  Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 3:3 (1972): 25-32.

 

  • Walton, Brian G. J.  James K. Polk and the Democratic Party in the Aftermath of the Wilmot Proviso. Nashville: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1968.

 

 

  • Warren, Polly C., ed.  "James R. Bennett: The First Man Hanged in Maury County."a  Historic Maury 23:1-4 (1987):  68-84.  

 

 

  • Weaver, Herbert, Paul Bergeron, and Wayne Cutler, eds.  Correspondence of James K. Polk. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 9 vols., 1969-1996.

 

  • Weaver, Herbert, and William G. Eidson.  "The James K. Polk Home."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 24 (1965): 3-19.  

 

 

 

  • West, Judy F.  Manchester: Coffee County, Tennessee: A Business and Community Pictorial Heritage.a  Chattanooga: J.F. West, 1986.

 

  • Wiggins, J. Lexie.  Tennessee Whig Opposition to the Polk Administration, 1844-1848.  Murfreesboro: Unpublished Master's Thesis, Middle Tennessee State University, 1972.

 

 

  • Williams, Emma Inman, ed.  "Letters of Adam Huntsman to James K. Polk."  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 6 (1947): 337-364.

 

 

 

  • Winders, Richard Bruce.  Mr. Polk's Army: Politics, Patronage, and the American Military in the Mexican War.  Abilene: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1994.

 

  • Wing, C.P.  Strength of Character: An Address Before the Literary Societies of Jackson College, Columbia, Tennessee, August 13, 1845.  Nashville: Rosboroughs & Kidd, 1845.

 

  • Winters, Donald L.  Tennessee Farmers: Antebellum Agriculture in the Upper South.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

 

  • Woodruff, Charles.  "An Account of Spasmodic Cholera as it Appeared in Shelbyville, Tennessee in the Summer of 1833."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 24:2 (1998): 57-58.