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Tennessee Adventure Guide
Tennessee Adventure Guide
Tennessee Adventure Guide
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Tennessee is perfect for hiking, horseback riding, picnicking, camping and nature-watching. History lures as well, with chances to tour the Civil War battlefields, trace the steps of Cherokee Indians, or walk around the historic villages. Memphis and Nash
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Release dateNov 1, 2009
ISBN9781588430960
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    Tennessee occupies a narrow strip of land in the south-central sectionof the United States. To the north are Virginia and Kentucky. To the west,the Mississippi River separates Tennessee from Missouri and Arkansas. Mississippi,Alabama, and Georgia lie to the south, and North Carolina borders Tennesseeto the east.

    From east to west Tennessees greatest length is 432 miles. Its greatestwidth is 115 miles. Its total area is 42,244 square miles, of which 916square miles are lakes, rivers, creeks and streams.

    All of Tennessee lies in the vast drainage basin of the Mississippi Riverand its chief eastern tributary, the Ohio. The principal river of the Volunteer State is the Tennessee, which crosses the state twice on its 652-mile courseto the Ohio River in Kentucky. Formed by the junction of the French Broadand Holston rivers above Knoxville, the Tennessee flows southwestward toChattanooga, then swings around in a broad curve (called the Big Bend)through northern Alabama, to enter Tennessee again in Hardin County. Fromthere it flows northward to Paducah, Kentucky.

    Bordered by eight other states, Tennessee cuts a long, narrow path acrossmuch of the mid-South. Because of its three so-called grand divisions,each represented by a star in the state flag, it has often been thoughtof as three states in

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