| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 319 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-325-0.)

Students of the southern revolutionary frontier long have appreciated and benefited from William Bartram's classic 1791 travel account. An inspiration to romantic writers, the volume also has served well the needs of historians and scientists fascinated by Bartram's wondrous creation. Many of his readers, thanks to Francis Harper's editorial prowess in the 1958 Travels, were aware that "darling Billy" had traversed a region on the cusp of war. William Bartram's only admitted proximity to armed strife came in his brief but heart-pounding encounter with a bristling Seminole warrior. Apparently unscathed and undaunted, Bartram rambled across the Southeast against a backdrop of war's rumblings. Given the empty spaces left on Bartram's prose canvas when compared to contemporary events, Edward J. Cashin endeavors to paint in what he thinks the Quaker may have chosen to omit. Long a student of this turbulent theater of war, Cashin has used the Travels with profit in the past. . . .

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