The Travels of Richard Traunter

Sandra L. Dahlberg is Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown and the coeditor, with Vivyan Adair, of Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America.

Recommended to academic libraries with an interest in resources about American Indians and colonial history. -- "American Library Association" A revealing glimpse into the world of a colonial Virginia trader, providing a good primary source addition to the growing body of scholarship on the Native South. . . With her careful editing and research, Dahlberg has revealed a stark glimpse of the colonial South. Overall, The Travels of Richard Traunter is a brief primary source that will shed some light on this complex, destructive period in the history of Native and colonial America.-- "Journal of Southern History" A very important manuscript. Traunter's account explores a shadowy realm--the interior, piedmont region of what is now Virginia and the Carolinas--at a crucial point in its history and sheds new light on Native life at a tumultuous time: one of disease, war, enslavement, and the fracturing and coalescing of these piedmont peoples. Traunter is a knowledgeable guide, and he has a great deal to say. --James H. Merrell, Vassar College, author of The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal