Goodreads asked Tony L. Turnbow:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Tony L. Turnbow The idea for Hardened to Hickory began with a question my high school history teacher Jim Milan planted as a seed 40 years ago. He gave a few details of Andrew Jackson's Natchez Expedition as part of a history presentation. I turned to biographies on Jackson but few added any additional details. Seven years ago, when I discovered unpublished journals and letters from that period of Jackson's life, I decided to pause work on a book about Meriwether Lewis's death and tell the story of Andrew Jackson's transformation to "Old Hickory."

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