The Land Before Alabama · Taking of the Land · The Land Still Speaks

The Alabama Frontier Series brings three complete books together in one volume, tracing Alabama’s story from the world that existed before statehood through the taking of the land and into the memory that remains beneath the modern landscape.

The Land Before Alabama explores the Coosa world, Cherokee and Muscogee Creek history, Native towns, rivers, trade routes, and the societies that existed long before Alabama appeared on a map.

The Taking of the Land follows the transformation of that world through treaties, roads, warfare, settlement, removal, and the political forces that reshaped Native homelands into the emerging state of Alabama.

The Land Still Speaks turns to what remains—memory, landscapes, old routes, communities, family stories, and the traces of history still visible beneath today’s roads, towns, farms, and neighborhoods.

Together, these three books tell one larger story:

Who lived on the land. How the land was taken. What the land still remembers.