THE YOWANNE, OR HIOWANNI, INDIANS.  (cont.)
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two histories as that cleft by the Chickasahay at the foot of the old Indian town. And yet whoever travels the lower Mobile and Ohio Railroad is passing through the Yowanne country and following in the main its trading route to Mobile; for here is one of the many instances of the white man’s building a railway along an old trade road made and used by the red man long before the white man came.8

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8 Much of the detail above concerning the trails was unearthed by the painstaking inquiries of Mr. H. S. Halbert, to whom students of Choctaw history and remains must always feel indebted.

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