![]() ![]() ![]() Pickett was born August 13, 1810, in Anson County, North Carolina, to William Raiford Pickett and Frances Dickson Pickett, who immigrated to the Alabama Territory in 1818. His History became a classic study of the intersections between Europeans and American Indians who shaped the state of Alabama. Through his voluminous correspondence, he developed important contacts with early settlers, military leaders, and politicians that produced firsthand accounts, reminiscences, documents, and oral interviews. ![]() A wealthy plantation owner, he honed his writing and research skills early on by publishing newspaper articles. Albert James Pickett (1810-1858) is best-known for his two-volume History of Alabama, And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, From the Earliest Period, published in 1851, and as Alabama‘s first historian. ![]()
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