2006-Apr-01

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Tecumseh in Mississippi
2006-Apr-01, Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (0)
Two years ago today we spent the day driving through Mississippi with my bicycle on top of our car. We started on the Natchez Trace, but decided it was boring whether by car or bicycle. What I really wanted to do was visit some of the places where the Shawnee leader, Tecumseh, had gone in 1811 in an attempt to recruit Choctaw people to his pan-Indian movement of resistance and revival. His most famous destination was Tuckabatchee, in what is now Alabama. That also happens to be near where Nate Shaw lived. ...

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