Balie Peyton Of Tennessee Nineteenth Century Politics And Thoroughbreds

Tennessee State Historian Walter T. Durham has written extensively on Tennessee history subjects. His first two volumes, "The Great Leap Westward" and "Old Sumner," received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. His history of the Southwest Territory won the Tennessee History Book Award. Among other honors, he received the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal for his three books about the Civil War in Sumner and Davidson Counties. His highly regarded "Volunteer Forty-Niners: Tennesseans and the California Gold Rush" was published in 1997. A past president of the Tennessee Historical Society and a past chairman of the Tennessee Historical Commission, Durham received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University. In the world of business, he has been a founder and active executive in Gallatin, Tennessee, firms that manufacture and distribute building materials.Durham, Walter T. is the author of 'Balie Peyton Of Tennessee Nineteenth Century Politics And Thoroughbreds' with ISBN 9781577363231 and ISBN 157736323X.