Voyage of the Adventure: Retracing the Donelson Party’s Journey to the Founding of Nashville, out this week from Vanderbilt University Press, tells the story of how, in the winter of 1779, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee to lead a flotilla of settlers over one thousand river miles away to the area now known as Nashville. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson ...
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