Fellow booklovers! looking for historic fiction or just non fiction history books about the south of US as I am planning a road trip from Florida to Arizona and like to read books about the places I will be driving through and the history around the southern states of US. Thanks in advance!
by Boring_Teach_7440
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Forget the Alamo was an easy and intriguing read peeling back all the mythology and misuse of history in Texas, and you’ll never believe how Ozzy Osborn and Phil Collins factor into it.
· *Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis* by William C. Davis.
· *Lone Star Rising* by William C. Davis.
· *When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860* by William H. Goetzmann.
· *The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations* by Charles L. Kenner.
· *Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
· *Doc Holliday* by John Myers Myers.
· *Forts and Forays: A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856* by Dr. James A. Bennett.
· *The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific: 1528-1536*, by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. Trans. Fanny Bandelier.
· *Cabeza de Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America*, Translation of *La Relación* by Cyclone Covey.
· *Odyssey of Cabeza De Vaca* by Morris Bishop.
· *The Florida of the Inca* by Garcilaso de la Vega. Trans. John and Jeannete Varner.
· *Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto in the Conquest of Florida: As Told by a Knight of Elvas, and in a Relation by Luys Hernandez De Biedma, Factor of the Expedition.*
· *The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory* by Robert V. Remini.
· *Through the Howling Wilderness: The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West* by Gary D. Joiner.
· *The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863* by Shelby Foote.
· *Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi* by Lawrence E. Hewitt.
· *Dark and Bloody Ground: The Battle of Mansfield and the Forgotten Civil War in Louisiana* by Thomas Ayres.
· *The Battle of Baton Rouge: 1862* by William A. Spedale.
· *Grierson’s Raid* by D. Alexander Brown.
· *Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War* by Charles P. Roland.