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Re: Pittsburg Landing



On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Sue Hovey wrote:
> 
> I'm currently reading the Tony Horowitz book, Confederates in the Attic, which I am finding fascinating.  In one chapter he describes the battlefield at Shiloh and refers to a point on the Tennessee River as Pittsburg Landing.  Does anyone have any idea as to the origin of the name, Pittsburg Landing,  on the Snake River?  Could it have come from this site?  Or is there a better explanation?

Apparently the name was applied to the Snake River site within a couple
months of the battle, so the assumption is that it did indeed come from
the battle site.

The best source I know of for sources of place names in Idaho is, no
surprise, the book "Idaho Place Names." By Lalia Boone, Univ. of Idaho
Press, 1988. And that's where the "within a couple months" info came from.

Don H. Coombs
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