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The Very Worst Road: Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847

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This book provides an eyewitness account of the events which were going on in the southeastern states, and probably over the rest of the country, during the period when the Indian people were being degraded and their culture destoyed and replaced by the European. It paints a picture, through the eyes of literate travelers, of the wonderful wilderness that was the American south as it gave way to settlement and the plow. This vivid picture cannot be told as well by any historian as it was by those who lived it and told it in their own words as they traveled through this primitive and sometimes dangerous land.