The Goodspeed brothers originally published their A History of Tennessee from the Earliest Times to the Present, together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties in Tenenssee , they would usually combine the general state history with group of county histories including the associated vanity biographies into a single volume. The general history would take up the first 796 pages, with the county pages following. Example: Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White counties would complete a volume, with the counties pages running 797 to 992.
When Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., of Southern Historical Press reprinted the Goodspeed History of Tennessee … , Rev. Lucas printed the main state history as a separate volume but retained the county groupings as found in the originals and printed them apart from the general history.
Facsimile reproductions (small print):
- Woodward and Stinson, Columbia TN. 1970s
- Randy Elder, Bookseller, Nashville, TN 1970s > current (?) Mountain Press, Signal Mountain TN (individual counties) current.
- Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1970s > current.
Reset type: Serviceberry Press. (Only four West TN county histories are available.) Current.
Source: Byron Sistler and Associates, Inc., Nashville.
How Goodspeed Divided the Counties
History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present … [state history]: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Carroll, Henry and Benton Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- City of Jackson and the County of Madison: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- County of Knox and the city of Knoxville: Southern Historical Press, 1982.
- Fayette and Hardeman Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979. – free online
- Hamilton, Knox and Shelby Counties: Elder Booksellers (Nashville), 1974
- Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood and Crockett Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1978.
- Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman and Lewis Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford and Marshall: Southern Historical Press.
- Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, and Houston Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
- Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
The History Thirty East Tennessee Counties: Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, James, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, and Washington: Southern Historical Press. 1980-1991 [Only one Bledsoe County Biography appears in the Book. The entire Bledsoe County section was omitted by Goodspeed.]