Description Albert James Pickett\'s History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period first appeared in Montgomery bookstores in September 1851.
William Gilmore Simms, the South\'s most prolific writer, referred to the publication as "one of the prettiest specimens of book making ever don.
The buyers of his two-volume work paid $3 and the demand caused Charleston publisher Walker and James to issue a second and third edition before year\'s end.
Description Albert James Pickett\'s History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period first appeared in Montgomery bookstores in September 1851