The Outlaw Years Floyd W. Gill his fiction embraces realistic tales

his fiction embraces realistic tales

--Philip Church Senior Lecturer School of Theology

drawing on interviews

often at variance with the conventional image of earlier popular reconstructions

Asking what shape the meaning in the movies can take in our own lives

The Outlaw Years Floyd W. Gill his fiction embraces realistic talesThe Natchez Trace is remarkable in American history for the legends and tales surrounding it. During the first half of the nineteenth century, travelers traders, settlers, and the occasional war party or fugitive from justice followed its course from the Appalachians to the lower Mississippi, from Knoxville to Natchez. In this vibrant and energetic account, the author has mined both history and legend for startling tales of the near mythical thieves,