Edited by EDWARD J. CASHIN, xxx + 204 pages, frontispiece In the early 19th century, Georgia thrilled with exploration, adventure, pioneering settlement, and tremendous growth--a story of swaggering and brawling frontiersmen, Indians who were sometimes docile and sometimes hostile, greedy land speculators and the proverbial Georgia "crackers." Twenty-seven documents, or groups of documents, describe the comedy and tragedy of the era. Travellers record explorations and adventures, most notably the botanist William Bartram and the noble Marquis de Lafayette. Letters from fearful settlers, complaining of border barbarities, set the stage for the brutal removal of the Cherokee Indians, described with horror by the missionary Daniel Buttrick in 1838. Edward J. Cashin is professor of history at Augusta College. Book Two in the Documentary History of Georgia series. isbn 0-88322-015-6 hardcover$40.00 The Beehive Foundation Post Office Box 1121 Savannah, Georgia 31402 These books are published without profit as an educational service. Keywords: The Beehive Foundation, The Beehive Press, Books About the South, Southern History, books, gift books, coffee-table books, coffee table books, presents, publiser, publishing, press, architecture, civil war, old south, slavery, southern plantations, documentary histories, restoration, Savannah, Georgia, scholar, historian, author, Mills Lane, Mills Bee Lane, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Architecture of the Old South, Charleston, confederacy, colonial, revolutionary war, sherman, greek revival, romantic, antebellum, federal, Free Joe, Trouble in July, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang, Robert E. Burns, a milestone in the publishing of books on georgia and the south, books that are artistic, important and beautiful, bee-hive, behive, small press, non-profit, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, birthday presents.