William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians
By: edited and annotated by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund.
Contributors: Waselkov, Gregory A.; Braund, Kathryn E. Holland, 1955-
Series: Indians of the Southeast
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Bartram, William, 1739-1823 -- Travel -- Southern States; Indians of North America -- Southern States; Southern States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: William Bartram traveled throughout the American Southeast from 1773 to 1776. He occupies a unique place as an American Enlightenment explorer, naturalist, writer, and artist whose work was widely admired in his time and thereafter. Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and other leading romantics found inspiration in his pages. Bartram's most famous work, Travels has remained in print since the first publication of the book in 1791. However, his writings on Indians have received less attention than they deserve.

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This volume contains all of Bartram's known writings on Native Americans: a new version of "Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians," originally edited by E. G. Squier and first published in 1853; a previously unpublished essay, "Some Hints and Observations Concerning the Civilization of the Indians, or Aborigines of America"; and extensive excerpts from Travels. These documents are among the most valuable accounts we have of the Creeks and Seminoles in the last half of the eighteenth century.

Several illustrations by Bartram are also included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-315) and index.
Maps on lining papers.