A history of navigation on the Tennessee river system: An interpretation of the economic influence of this river system on the Tennessee vally. ... on the Tennessee river and its tributaries"

This report, prepared from a strictly historical point of view, discusses the use of the Tennessee River system as a waterway and the relationships between thyat use and the economic and political development of the Tennessee Valley and contiguous territory. This history reveals the very substantial, but little publicized, part played by navigation on the Tennessee River system in the early settlement and commercial development in the Tennessee Valley.