Letters Of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1806; Collections Of The Georgia Historical Society (Volume Ix)

Between 1796 and 1806, Benjamin Hawkins, United States Indian agent to the Creek Nation and a leading voice on the early American frontier, recorded a decade of struggle, negotiation, and fragile coexistence. History speaks in these letters. This remarkable historical letters collection captures early American correspondence from forts, trading posts, and fledgling settlements along the early Georgia frontier, where native american diplomacy, federal power, and settler ambition collided. Through Hawkins’s observant reports and private communications emerge vivid glimpses of creek nation history, the wider early American south, and the realities of the early 19th century frontier.As part of the renowned Georgia Historical Society collection, the Letters of Benjamin Hawkins stand as indispensable primary source documents for anyone interested in early American frontier history, genealogy and local history, and the shifting relationships between Indigenous nations and the young republic. Scholars will value it as a rigorous reference book for historians, while general readers of narrative history will find an intimate window into people and places rarely heard in official chronicles. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today’s and future generations, more than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.