Another interesting book about early Alabama is called Letters From Alabama. I can't recall the author but he was a British fellow that was hired to teach in Pleasant Hill before the Civil war. He took a steam ship up the Alabama River from Mobile to King's Landing, which is where I hunt to make it even more interesting to me. His descriptions of life, Alligators and other wildlife were really cool. He even described an outing in which they "jacklighted" deer. So there's a long, documented history of spotlighting in Dallas County.