Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South

Hudson examines travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s. She focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek Indian lands and the states that grew up around them
the development of roads, canals, and other internal improvements within these territories
and the ways that Indians, settlers, and slaves understood, contested, and collaborated on these boundaries and transit networks.