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An impressive and careful piece of research. --Tuscaloosa News Bridging Deep South Rivers separates fact from legend to the extent possible and recounts a life so extraordinary that I t would defy credibility were it a work of fiction. . . . Bridging Deep South Rivers offers the first thoroughly researched examination of the life of a compelling figure in southern history. It should appeal to an audience that ranges from lay readers to scholars. --Alabama Review Lupold and French add considerably to the knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition --Eufaula Tribune Meticulous research penetrates the myths and hearsay to at last give a true picture of the architect and engineer whose covered wooden spans bridged the Deep South. --Richard Sanders Allen Founder of Covered Bridge Topics, the journal of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges Contains an astonishing amount of hitherto unpublished information and makes a very significant contribution to the history of the American South in general and to black history in particular. Horace King's interactions with his fellow southerners--first as a slave, then as a freedman, and finally during Reconstruction as a politician--will make reading the book a rewarding experience for general readers. --Robert O. Mellown Associate Professor of Art History, University of Alabama Extensive and meticulous research . . . Lupold and French have illuminated the Deep South of the mid-nineteenth century, its technology, economy, and sociology, and introduced us to one of its exemplary citizens. --Journal of American History The authors have done considerable research in giving us a view of life in the South during the middle of the 19th century. Anyone who wishes to better understand the development of the southern United States both socially and economically during this period will find Bridging Deep South Rivers a good way to begin that understanding. --Civil War Book Review An extraordinary account of a black man's development of a successful business in the Deep South before and after the Civil War. --Technology and Culture

Extensive and meticulous research . . . Lupold and French have illuminated the Deep South of the mid-nineteenth century, its technology, economy, and sociology, and introduced us to one of its exemplary citizens. -- Journal of American History

Bridging Deep South Rivers contains an astonishing amount of hitherto unpublished information and makes a very significant contribution to the history of the American South in general and to black history in particular. Horace King's interactions with his fellow southerners--first as a slave, then as a freedman, and finally during Reconstruction as a politician--will make reading the book a rewarding experience for general readers.

Extensive and meticulous research . . . Lupold and French have illuminated the Deep South of the mid-nineteenth century, its technology, economy, and sociology, and introduced us to one of its exemplary citizens.-- Journal of American History

Bridging Deep South Rivers separates fact from legend to the extent possible and recounts a life so extraordinary that I t would defy credibility were it a work of fiction. . . . Bridging Deep South Rivers offers the first thoroughly researched examination of the life of a compelling figure in southern history. It should appeal to an audience that ranges from lay readers to scholars. --Alabama Review An extraordinary account of a black man's development of a successful business in the Deep South before and after the Civil War. --Technology and Culture An impressive and careful piece of research. --Tuscaloosa News Contains an astonishing amount of hitherto unpublished information and makes a very significant contribution to the history of the American South in general and to black history in particular. Horace King's interactions with his fellow southerners--first as a slave, then as a freedman, and finally during Reconstruction as a politician--will make reading the book a rewarding experience for general readers. --Robert O. Mellown Associate Professor of Art History, University of Alabama Extensive and meticulous research . . . Lupold and French have illuminated the Deep South of the mid-nineteenth century, its technology, economy, and sociology, and introduced us to one of its exemplary citizens. --Journal of American History Lupold and French add considerably to the knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition --Eufaula Tribune Meticulous research penetrates the myths and hearsay to at last give a true picture of the architect and engineer whose covered wooden spans bridged the Deep South. --Richard Sanders Allen Founder of Covered Bridge Topics, the journal of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges The authors have done considerable research in giving us a view of life in the South during the middle of the 19th century. Anyone who wishes to better understand the development of the southern United States both socially and economically during this period will find Bridging Deep South Rivers a good way to begin that understanding. --Civil War Book Review

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John S. Lupold is a professor of history at Columbus State University. Thomas L. French Jr., a surveyor and landscape architect based in Columbus, Georgia, is the foremost authority on Georgia's covered bridges.

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