Mark Twain wrote about a gunfight in downtown Knoxville involving Joseph Mabry Jr., owner of the city's antebellum Mabry-Hazen House in Life on the Mississippi from 1883. Several other books take place in fictionalized versions of the city, such as the 1915 Anne W. Armstrong novel, The Seas of God,M. Thomas Inge, Charles Reagan Wilson, et al., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), p. 174. and David Madden's 1974 novel, Bijou, is set in a fictional city known as "Cherokee", based on Knoxville."The Mighty Metro Pulse Collection of Awesome Knoxville Lists", Metro Pulse, June 23, 2010. Accessed at the Internet Archive, October 1, 2015.
Mark Twain wrote about a .gunfight in downtown Knoxville involving Joseph Mabry Jr., owner of the city's antebellum Mabry-Hazen House in Life on the Mississippi from 1883. Several other books take place in fictionalized versions of the city, such as the 1915 Anne W. Armstrong novel, The Seas of God,M. Thomas Inge, Charles Reagan Wilson, et al., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature (Universi,ty of North Carolina Press, 2008), p. 174. and David Madden's 1974 novel, Bijou, is set in a fictional city known as "Cherokee", based on Knoxville."The Mighty Metro Pulse Collection of Awesome Knoxville Lists", Metro Pulse, June 23, 201?0. Accessed at the Internet Archive, October 1, 2015.